On 2006-08-07, Pawel Rutkowski <rutekp@moja-poczta.com.pl> wrote:
> So I change in /etc/init.d/qmail
> line:
> qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &
> to:
> qmail-start '|qmail-rblchk -l /var/log/spam/log -r bl.spamcannibal.org
> ./Maildir/' splogger qmail &

This looks ok but you have to note that this is just the defaultdelivery
that is passed on to qmail-local, i.e. any ~/.qmail files that exist
take precedence.

> to:
> qmail-start `|qmail-rblchk -l /var/log/spam/log -r bl.spamcannibal.org
> ./Maildir/` splogger qmail &

These are back-ticks, they cause the shell that sees this command line to
invoke qmail-rblck immediately. And the shell will complain that a command
named ./Maildir/ does not exist. Please check out sh(1) or bash(1).

> to:
> qmail-start |qmail-rblchk -l /var/log/spam/log -r bl.spamcannibal.org
> ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &

This sets up a pipeline that feeds the standard output of qmail-start
to qmail-rblchk. This does not make sense and the shell will complain
again that ./Maildir/ does not exist.

These are shell scripts. You need to be familiar with the shell. Otherwise
you are entirely lost if you are using Unix or Linux.

Andreas.