Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all:

I have a problem with this simple script. It appears that it should work, but I am getting an error message.

I am trying to pass a file through a filter to grep for "urgent" and forward the message to me.

Here it is.

#!/bin/ksh
#
if (`grep urgent /tmp/test.tmp| wc -l` -gt 0)
then
mailx -s "urgent message" root < /tmp/test.tmp
else
mailx -s "mail forwarded from sysname" tm6858 < /tmp/test.tmp
fi



My error message is this:

root> ./urgent.sh
./urgent.sh[3]: 2: not found

I got this message as a response to the program.

What does "not available for sendmail programs" mean?


The original message was received at Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:28:50 -0600 (CST)
from root@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/root/urgent.sh"
(expanded from: userID)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: urgent.sh not available for sendmail programs
554 "|/root/urgent.sh" ... Service unavailable



Here is my /etc/aliases output.

userID :"|/root/urgent.sh"

You set this up as ksh but are using ( ) in your if statement.

Remember to put in the white space.

if [ `grep urgent /tmp/test.tmp| wc -l` -gt 0 ]

Thanks I forgot about the whitespace. That did solve the first problem.

However, I am still getting this error message.

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/root/urgent.sh"
(expanded from: tm6858)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: urgent.sh not available for sendmail programs
554 "|/root/urgent.sh" ... Service unavailable

How are you running this? Are you setting this as part of a forward file? (The script by itself will work.)

I have a file in the /tmp directory called /tmp/test.tmp

I mail this file to a user who is aliased in the /etc/aliases file.
tm6858 :"|/root/urgent.sh"

This file is owned by root...
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 196 Jan 24 08:28 urgent.sh


I have this script process the file and forward it to root if it is "urgent" or if not it just sends the file to the user.

What version of Sendmail ?

I tried it and it worked fine after I set up the alias and did the newaliases command (I called the script test2)

/etc/mail/aliases:
hog: "|/tmp/test2"

The only thing I can think of is that Sendmail won't use a script if it's set up as the 'shell' for an account - it will complain if it's not in /etc/shells. See the FAQ on www.sendmail.org.