[CLUG] weird error message from sendmail

[adam beecher]

Sorry, meant to include the doc links:

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=smrsh%20site%3Asendmail.org

First two will explain it. I just do what TFM tells me.

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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