On Tue, 18 May 1999, Peter Janett wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I tried exactly what you suggested:
> system("/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu");
>
> But this fails, appearing to be a permission problem. If I telnet in as the
> user that the script runs as, I get "Permission denied". So, I changed
> permissions, and then get:
> "qmail-newu: fatal: unable to open users/cdb.tmp"
<snip>
>
> Since this is for web based email, I need to do a "qmail=newu" each time
> someone signs up (each time the Perl script is run.) For this reason,
> setting up a shell script to run at certain intervals doesn't seem to be the
> correct solution. I'd like to see how you are running the command with your
> Perl script, or hear other suggestions
I get the feeling that you need to run the perl script as root (or
whomever else has permissions to those files/directories) Everything
you've mentioned seems to be permissions problems. You might be able to
get away with one of the qmail* uids, but you might end up having to run
the script as root.
That being said, I've never mucked around with scripting it.
.Shawn
