Re: [cobalt-users] smrsh not available for sendmail programs

[Andreas Banze <andreas@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri Jun 06, 2003 - 09:59:33AM, Alfredo Musse T. wrote:

> Hi, does anyone knows Ticket Master 3.0? http://tm.jynx.net
> I have added this line to /etc/mail/aliases as specified on the readme file
> 
> support: root,"|/home/sites/home/web/support/openticket.pl"
> 
> Then I run newaliases
> 
> When sending a mail to support I receive a returned mail:
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> smrsh: openticket.pl not available for sendmail programs
> 554 5.0.0 "|/home/sites/home/web/support/openticket.pl"... Service
> unavailable
> 
> Any ideas of what could be happening?

smrsh is sendmail restricted shell. scripts not in the smrsh path will not
get executed because of security reasons.

Try "man smrsh" from the shell, it'll tell you which path is the one you
need to put the script into. If my memory servers me right, a symbolic link
is sufficient.

MfG
Andreas Banze

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