chmod 700 did the trick. Thank you so much!
Sheridan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agustin Rivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail and PERL > chmod 700 should do it. Any group or world writable should kill it. I > don't think sendmail complains about readable files as much as it does > about writable files. > What do the logs say? > > One other way is via a procmail recipe. > > Something like: > > :0 > * > /path/to/perlscript > > > > Roger > > > > At 08:15 AM 1/17/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >First thing I would do is check the permissions of the .forward file. It > >has to be VERY specific. I wish I remembered what it was.. > > > >Agustin Rivera > >Webmaster, Pollstar.com > >http://www.pollstar.com > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Lysander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:12 AM > >Subject: Sendmail and PERL > > > > > >Okay, this is probably more of a sendmail than a PERL question so I > >apologize. If anyone can give me information or even point me to a sendmail > >list or resource I would appreciate it. > > > >I am writing a PERL script that takes incoming mail, parses the contents, > >and then uses them to update a status page. > > > >I thought the sendmail part would be as simple as adding a > >"|/path/to/script.pl" to the aliases file. Unfortunately, I do not even > >have read access to the aliases file on my webhost's computer. I called > >them and they told me I could accomplish the same thing with a .forward > >file, but that they could not tell me how. > > > >So I tried making a .forward file in my home directory with the line I would > >have put in an aliases file. But this didn't work. > > > >Does anyone have any ideas, or resources on this? > > > >Thanks > >Sheridan > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
