Re: sendmail smrsh symlinks not working against php scripts

On Wed, April 18, 2007 11:20 am, dan1 wrote: > I am trying to forward the e-mails received to one address towards a > php > script, under CentOS 4 (RHEL). > I am trying all I can but nothing does. > > I have edited my /etc/aliases file and added this line. > ecard-bounce: "|/usr/bin/php /etc/smrsh/ecardbounce.php" > > Then, of course I do a 'newaliases'. > In my /etc/smrsh I have placed the symbolic link defined above, which > has > been created this way: > ln -s /home/my/scripts/ecardbounce.php /etc/smrsh/ecardbounce.php > > When using this configuration, I get the following error back by > email: > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > "|/usr/bin/php /etc/smrsh/ecardbounce.php" > (reason: 255) > (expanded from: <ecard-bounce@myserver.com>) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > Status: 404 > Content-type: text/html > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 > > No input file specified. > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 255 > > > > However, if I put a hardlink instead of the symlink, all works fine! > The permissions of the symlink and the file linekd are all 777. > > Has anyone already had this problem before, or would anyone have an > idea of > the cause? smrsh itself may disallow symlinks. Wouldn't surprise me. Why not just use #!/usr/bin/php -q at the top of your PHP script? -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?