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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: problems with QMAILQUEUE and reading stdin
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:11:08 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 29 May 2006, B S Srinidhi wrote:

>> 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"`

Why run cat unnecessarily (and depend on /dev/stdin which only sometimes 
exists)?

Try:

tmp=$pq/$(/usr/pkg/bin/safecat "$pq/tmp" "$pq")