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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: B news / sendmail problem?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.115136.10272@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <2183@estevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 11:51:36 GMT
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In article <2183@estevax.UUCP> iain@estevax.UUCP (Hr Iain Lea) writes:
>
>We have the following alias setup for sendmail to use
>
>    rnews: "|/news/lib/uurec"
>
>rnews... aliased to "|/news/lib/uurec"
>testmail
>^D"|/news/lib/uurec"... Connecting to  (prog)...
>sh: /news/lib/uurec: cannot execute
>"|/news/lib/uurec"... unknown mailer error 1
>root... aliased to root@norisb
>Saving message in //dead.letter
>//dead.letter... Can't create output
># echo $status
>69

 This is not a news problem - it is a mail problem.

 Have you checked the permissions on /news/lib/uurec ?

 Have you tested /news/lib/uurec  directly as a command.  Ideally it should
be possible for any user to execute a programmatic mailer, but at the very
minimum to handle mail originating externally it must be executable
by daemon.


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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