[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hello,
** Scott Lawrence [2013-06-06 22:20:46 -0400]:

> 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?

Fully updated Archlinux x86_64, fetchmail+procmail and postfix work fine
(on system w/o testing and with).

> Thanks,

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WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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