SPUG: Inspired, broken.

[Atom Powers]

Tim Maher wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:27:48PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote:
> 
>>This doesn't work: ( I apologize for the line breaks )
>>
>>apowers at hermes0:/home/mailman> sudo -u mailman perl5 -wnl -e 
>>'m/\w+\@\w+\.\w{3}/ and print "\L$&\E OK";' address_list.txt > 
>>recipients.txt
>>recipients.txt: Permission denied.
> 
> 
> Apparently the mailman ID is attempting a write to the
> current directory, and it doesn't have permission there,
> so use a directory it can write to; for example:
> 
> sudo -u mailman perl5 -wnl -e 'command' infile > /tmp/outfile
> 
Nope. Mailman has write permission to it's home drive.
apowers at hermes0:/home> ll
total 5
drwxr-xr-x  3 apowers  UnixAdmins   512 Feb  9 13:35 apowers
drwxr-xr-x  7 mailman  mail        1024 Feb  9 08:39 mailman
apowers at hermes0:/home> ll mailman/
total 270
drwxrwxr-x    3 mailman  wheel    512 Jan 19 12:39 .spamassassin
drwxr-xr-x    2 mailman  mail     512 Feb  1 12:59 .ssh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mail   64566 Feb  9 00:00 address_list.txt
drwxrwxr-x    2 mailman  wheel    512 Feb  9 11:00 bin
drwxrwxr-x    2 mailman  mail    5120 Feb  9 00:00 mail
drwxr-xr-x  121 mailman  mail   41984 Feb  9 13:39 quarantine
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mail   21284 Feb  9 00:05 recipients.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mail   65536 Feb  9 00:05 recipients.db
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  wheel     82 Jan 19 13:26 recipients.proto