Re: oddity regarding execution

From: Malcolm Kay (malcolm.kay_at_internode.on.net)
Date: 07/06/03

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    To: Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sendmail-questions@sendmail.org
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 12:10:30 +0930

    On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:56, Kirk Bailey wrote:
    > I am using FreeBSD and sendmail to work on the internet. Recently I wrote a
    > program to process a incoming email and append it to a file in it's own
    > directory. I have a complete email in a file in the directory for testing,
    > and I fired it up from the command line prompt using input redirection to
    > draw input from the file; it worked fine. So I created an alias pointed at
    > it, and fired off a test message.
    >
    > Well, when the alias fed the message to it, it barked. 'unknown mailer
    > error 1' says the log. Ran it with the sample file, worked fine; even
    > modified the testcase a little, still fine. Hmmmm... So I added a line to
    > the script, so it would open a file and write it's current path, and very
    > carefully detailed EXACTLY where this file lived, having a suspicion. BARK!
    > Although it still barked like a dog, it gave me my confirmation; when
    > executed by an alias, it thinks the cwd is '/'!!! I modified the script to
    > point EXACTLY to the location of the recipient file of the data, and all
    > was now well, either way.
    >
    > HHMMMMMMMMMMMMM..... is this a freebsd quriosity, a sendmail quriosity, or
    > what all? And is there anything I can do so the cwd will be the dir the
    > script is living in?

    Normal: the thought of scripts setting current directory by default is
    horrific!

    You can use something like:

      #!/bin/sh
      cd `dirname $0`
      pwd

    Malcolm Kay

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