Re: Deliver to script, working...

[Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>]

>   I modified mailbox.c to do a fdopen(...,"w") instead of 
> fdopen(...,"a").
> 
>   Strange... 

You mean this ?
----------------------------------------------------------------
diff -c mailbox.c~ mailbox.c
*** mailbox.c~  Thu Feb 23 08:01:18 1995
--- mailbox.c   Thu Feb 23 08:00:55 1995
***************
*** 991,997 ****
        char *fromuser;
        int lastch;
  
!       if ((fp = fdopen(fdmail, "a+")) == NULL) {
          notaryreport(NULL,NULL,NULL);
          DIAGNOSTIC(rp, EX_TEMPFAIL, "cannot fdopen(%d)", fdmail);
          return NULL;
--- 991,997 ----
        char *fromuser;
        int lastch;
  
!       if ((fp = fdopen(fdmail, "w+")) == NULL) {
          notaryreport(NULL,NULL,NULL);
          DIAGNOSTIC(rp, EX_TEMPFAIL, "cannot fdopen(%d)", fdmail);
          return NULL;
----------------------------------------------------------------

Sure a strange thing ...  Apparently the  fdopen()  on BSD looks at the
file being a real file onto which the "a"(ppend) attribute makes sense.
Other systems appear to ignore possible error in the case.

I don't think this "a+" -> "w+" change will do any harm.

>   The scheduler delivered the mail without errors with this change. 
> My script has a "cat - > /tmp/out" to test to make it sure it was 
> getting the message on stdin ok.
> 
> Tom

	/Matti Aarnio