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From: tasos@bacardi.bu.edu (Anastasios Kotsikonas)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Problem with mail aliases
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:55:41 GMT
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Hello everyone,
I have a problem with mail aliases which I cannot figure out. In the
/etc/aliases file the exists the following alias:

listserv:	"|/bin/cat >> /usr/guest/ermis/requests"

which is obviously intended to divert any mail sent to 'listserv' to another
account (ermis) in the file 'requests'. But whenever I send mail to 
listserv, I get the following error message from MAILER-DAEMON (along with
a copy of my original message):

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
Cannot exec '/bin/sh' errno=13
554 "|/bin/cat >> /usr/guest/ermis/requests"... Service unavailable

Does anyone know what this message means? For the record, let me tell you
that the protection in the ermis home directory is drwsrwxrwx; also for the
record, I have noticed that when I do an 'ls -l' there seem to be no
group memberships or ownerships for both the home directory and its files.

I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,
tasos

tasos@bacardi.bu.edu