Process of addition, then elimination: something in your shell environment is needed. Start adding vars into your script that are present in your shell. Or just define java classpath out-right - sounds like the likely culprit.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote: > On 10/16/2012 9:17 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > > I am trying to execute a java program from postfix using > > a pipe alias. > > > > When I send an email to the alias, I get this back from postfix: > > > > Command died with status 1: > > "/root/webapps/cbsweb/WEB-INF/bin/mdcm/mailHandler". Command output: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > mdcm/MailHandler > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: mdcm.MailHandler at > > java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at > > java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at > > java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at > > sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) at > > java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) Could not find > the > > main class: mdcm.MailHandler. Program will exit. > > > > Obviously, it is invoking the java vm, but for some reason it is not > finding > > my main > > class. > > Postfix doesn't run as root. > > > I can execute my script file from the command line and it works fine. > > > > Here is my alias in /etc/aliases: > > # Forward mdcm messages to mail handler > > mdcm: |"/root/webapps/cbsweb/WEB-INF/bin/mdcm/mailHandler" > > You're running the script as root. > > > Any ideas? > > Run the script in the context of the Postfix user, assigning necessary > permissions to the script and all related files. > > -- > Stan > > >
