[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

[Joerg Schilling]

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.

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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