SUMMARY: mailx -r and Sol 8
2007-12-24 19:08:00
mailx -r <fake-sender-name> -s $subject $rcpt < standard-response
was not substituting fake sender (correctly), although it had done for
years, pre Sol8.
Firstly thanks to those who suggested I check my trusted users (T macro
in sendmail.cf) but that was OK.
The fix? I stopped using mailx, and used sendmail -f directly, which
works fine. In other words mailx has changed the way it behaves
between Sol7 and Sol8.
Interestingly enough, /usr/bin/sh has also changed the way it
interprets quoting in some weird way. I had some pretty complicated
(horrible) shell scripts which broke spectacularly under Sol8 (worked
fine under Sol 2.4/5/6/7). Some horrible awk lines, with embedded shell
variables, did not work the same.
I spent hours trying to fix them, finally changed
#!/usr/bin/sh
to
#!/usr/bin/ksh
and even though I was using none of the ksh stuff, they all worked fine.
Weird, but life is short, move on...
john
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