At 13:11 2003-03-30 -0700, LuKreme did say:
# usage banner from grep
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
Which is the usage banner, as expected. We capture it because sometimes
people don't have grep, or they've got some gawdawful implementation, and
hopefully the usage banner will provide a clue as to which one (--version
isn't available in all implementations of grep).
# sendmail program information (from procmail's $SENDMAIL):
0555 1 root smmsp 413596 Fri Mar 7 18:23:38 2003 /usr/sbin/sendmail
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
This sort of response, while not written out longhand, basically tells
someone who reviews this output that you're not running a real
sendmail. Your wrapper doesn't fully emulate sendmail in any event.
# Determining Mlocal via sendmail diagnostic invocation
That reference to "sendmail" is literal, as is Mlocal, which is a SENDMAIL
configuration, not (AFAIK), postfix, exim, qmail, etc - which each have
their own config file syntaxes.
sendmail: illegal option -- d
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
NOTE: procmail doesn't appear to be the LDA
(These last two I assume are because postfix is installed)
No doubt.
NB: I'm not complaining, the script is very useful, just wanted to let you
know. These last two result int eh script reporting that procmail does
not appear to be the LDA.
If you'd like to sort out the diagnostics for postfix, please feel free to
do so - I'd be happy to supplement the script with material from others. I
personally have no interest in installing postfix just to figure out which
sendmail functions they don't actually emulate with their sendmail wrapper,
or what is necessary to configure procmail as the LDA, etc.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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