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Re: problems piping mails to programs?
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Johannes Kremsner wrote:
> hello
>
> i am trying to install a maillist-manager with zmailer on redhat
> 5.2 .
> the manager ( esquire ) is correctly installed and works fine.
> but everytime, i want to mail to a list, i get this error
> message:
>
> to=<"|/home/esquire/bin/esquire test">, delay=00:00:11,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=error2 mail to program disallowed
>
> only zmailer scripts are working ( vacation ... ). all other
> programs, which i tried, produced the same error.
This is a typical case of a privilege violation (=attempted security breach).
The alias (or some other) database file has too open protection.
Where that pipe is defined ?
> thx for any help,
> johannes
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