Re: dumping mail to /dev/null fails because exec rights

On Friday, March 04, 2005 at 11:27 CET,
Bruno <postfix@ruomad.net> wrote:

> I'm using postfix 2.1.5 and trying to dump some spam to /dev/null.
> It fails with 'cannot append message to destination file : file is
> executable.
>=20
> inded : ll /dev/null rights are crwxrwxrwx (which is normal AFAIK)

What operating system are you running? In both Solaris and Linux,
/dev/null is not executable.

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