What version of Sendmail are you running?
Sendmail can run under a "restricted" shell, although it escapes me at
the moment how to check if it is or not. That restricted shell may not
allow the execution of the listserv executables unless some other
condition is met, ie. they're owned by a "sendmail" user or something.
Search sendmail.cf and see if you can find a reference to that
restricted shell.
Donncha.
Peter Flynn wrote:
>> 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?
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