Perl and smrsh

stew has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

Can anybody help me to figure out how to make Perl available to the sendmail shell smrsh? Here is what I get when I try to send mail to an address that is an alias fo a perl script.

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/bin/perl /path/to/script.pl"
    (reason: service unavailable)
    (expanded from: sbss)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: perl not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
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Cheers,
Stew

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Re: Perl and smrsh by stew (Scribe) on Sep 12, 2003 at 10:02 UTC
Thank you - I did, For anybody else that may be interested all I had to do was create a symlink in /etc/smrsh `ln -s /usr/bin/perl /etc/smrsh/perl` [download] Stew	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl and smrsh by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Sep 12, 2003 at 09:41 UTC
That's not a perl problem, it's a sendmail problem. The fact that sendmail can't find perl is something you have to fix on the sendmail site. You're much better off asking in a more appropriate forum, for instance, in the Usenet group comp.mail.sendmail. Abigail	[reply]