[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

[Leonid Isaev]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:20:46 -0400 (EDT)
Scott Lawrence <bytbox at gmail.com> 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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