Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> In short, the latest upgrade seems to have borked fetchmail:
>
> fetchmail: Error writing to MDA: Broken pipe
>
> Deleting the /bin symlink and creating a /bin directory containing only a
> symlink /bin/sh pointing to /usr/bin/bash, makes fetchmail work again.
>
> Running `strace -vf fetchmail` reveals that the execve("/bin/sh"...) call
> returns EPERM.
This symlink was introduced in late 1987 with SunOS-4.0, there never have been
any problems with this construct.
Jörg
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