{"id":6619,"date":"2014-04-20T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/20\/postfix-pipe-to-script-execvp-permissions-denied-error-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-04-20T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:57:01","slug":"postfix-pipe-to-script-execvp-permissions-denied-error-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/20\/postfix-pipe-to-script-execvp-permissions-denied-error-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"postfix pipe to script: execvp permissions denied error-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am new to postfix and am trying to pipe a message to a particular email address to a bash script. I am running CentOS 6 in case that matters.<\/p>\n<p>My script has 777 permission (for testing), and when I email to the test account I see that postfix tries to run the script. This is the relevant line from the maillog:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb 16 15:08:40 lserver2 postfix\/local[19675]: F4045103000: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=1737, delays=1737\/0.01\/0\/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: local: fatal: execvp \/data\/scripts\/testscript: Permission denied )*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This looks like a permissions issues. When I try to run my script as us &#8216;postfix&#8217; or &#8216;nobody&#8217; I get the error: <strong>This account is currently not available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where to go from here&#8230;.I&#8217;ve read several posts that don&#8217;t give a clear next step. (I don&#8217;t want to redirect ALL mail to a script, and one answer looks WAY to complicated for something so simple)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am new to postfix and am trying to pipe a message to a particular email address to a bash script. I am running CentOS 6 in case that matters. My script has 777 permission (for testing), and when I email to the test account I see that postfix tries to run the script. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}