On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Scott Lawrence 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.

I'm well and truly stumped. I'm using courier-mta as my mda, but that shouldn't be relevant. Has anybody encountered this?

I haven't: fetchmail + exim work as before. However, exim listens on localhost:25, does courier do too or you use fetchmail's --mda option?

Thanks,

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Scott Lawrence 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.

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