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Re: [cobalt-users] OT? Mail to a script/program
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] OT? Mail to a script/program
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 24 20:10:10 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"rob@xxxxxxxx" wrote:
> > >> We have set this alias entry
> > >> (alias: "|/home/sites/site41/web/cgi-bin/alias.cgi")
> > >> to activate a script when receive email, but Sendmail answers
> > >> "Cannot mail directly to files"
> > >>If I try from a shell: perl/home/sites/site41/web/cgi-bin/alias.cgi
> > >>it works.!
>
> Zeffie wrote:
>
> >who owns the file and what group is it in....
>
> Its ownership is root.root
1. It's NEVER a good idea for a cgi-file to be owned by root.
2. Files owned by root will NOT run through apache on any website the
way your Raq is set up.
3. If the cgi-file is NOT designed to be run through apache it should
NOT be in the "web" tree.
Jeff
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