Re: problems with QMAILQUEUE and reading stdin

[B S Srinidhi <srinidhi@deeproot.co.in>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 21:58 -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> I'm dealing with a frustrating problem where my QMAILQUEUE program
> is not working because it cannot read stdin.
> 
> 2006-05-29_00:58:31.79998 tcpsvd: info: status 3/20
> 2006-05-29_00:58:31.80038 tcpsvd: info: pid 10614 from 204.152.190.11
> 2006-05-29_00:58:31.80098 tcpsvd: info: start 10614 sta.galis.org:69.31.23.138 ::204.152.190.11:51459 ./peers.cdb/0
> 2006-05-29_00:58:32.04704 /var/qmail/bin/prequeue: cannot open /dev/stdin: error 9
> 2006-05-29_00:58:32.15075 tcpsvd: info: end 10614 exit 0
> 

'error 9' means "Bad file number". So, its nothing to with your
permissions or anything else.

> This is the line from /var/qmail/bin/prequeue that's causing the
> error:
> 
> tmp="$pq/`/usr/pkg/bin/safecat "$pq/tmp" "$pq" </dev/stdin`" || exit 71 # put message to disk, if possible
> 

hmm... I don't know what exactly should happen here, but wouldn't it be
possible to do this:

`cat /dev/stdin | /usr/pkg/bin/safecat "$pq/tmp" "$pq"`

??

Hope this helps.

Srinidhi.
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