[CLUG] weird error message from sendmail

[adam beecher]

Hi Peter,

It's probably smrsh. Sendmail won't allow itself to run an app unless you
add a symlink in the smrsh directory (typically /etc/smrsh on Red Hat). Try:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/lsv_amin /etc/srmsh/lsv_admin

HTH,
adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cork-admin at linux.ie [mailto:cork-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Peter
> Flynn
> Sent: 4 May 2001 14.13
> To: cork at linux.ie
> Subject: [CLUG] weird error message from sendmail
>
>
> I just installed a test of Listserv lite. all went well, but mailing
> into it gets me the error message from sendmail:
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/local/bin/lsv_amin /home/listserv/spool owner-listserv"
>     (expanded from: owner-listserv)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> sh: lsv_amin not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "|/usr/local/bin/lsv_amin /home/listserv/spool
> owner-listserv"... Service unavailable
>
> The pipe is in /etc/aliases as the alias for listserv and is as
> given in the install docs. The program in /usr/local/bin is
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        23676 May  4 13:22 lsv_amin
> and the target spool directory tree is owned by listserv, grouped
> to root, and had chmod -R ugo+x on it.
>
> Questions: what exactly does "not available" mean? It's obviously
> a bare-faced lie, as the program is executable by sendmail and
> the directories are writable...or is their some weirdness in
> sendmail going on here?
>
> ///Peter
>
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