faxspool from sendmail

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Greg Shepherd wrote:

> I wrote a quick perl script that takes a message piped from sendmail and
> calls faxspool. When I run the script from the command line, all is well.
> 
> When piped from sendmail, my script runs fine, but it fails to call
> faxspool successfully:
> 
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> /dev/fd/3: logname: not found
> /dev/fd/3: id: not found
> /dev/fd/3: expr: not found
> cannot determine user id. fix program.
> 

You should set the path to some reasonable values, e.g.
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin. Should be much better afterwards...

Klaus

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