starting script (chmod 777) but still permission denied

Hi,

I want to start a script when i receive an email.
So i made the following line in /etc/aliases

start: "|/path/to/script/script"

now when i mail to start@domain.com it tries to start the script ( is see in the mail log). But it returns this error:


Dec 17 13:57:07 web01 local[22508]: fatal: execvp /path/to/script/script: Permission denied
Dec 17 13:57:08 web01 postfix/local[22495]: 173C7B0005: to=<start@domain.com>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (Command died with status 1: "/path/to/script/script")

so it tries to start it but it has no permission

When i run it from the commanline it works like a charm

i have chmod 777 the file and chown root:root

What can be wrong?

I would look at /path/to/script/. Can the mailer read those directories? And don't chmod your script to 777. Use 755. A world writable script is a security problem.

when a progr runs on cmd-line and has troubles
running by a deamon is mostly an ENVIRONMENT issue.

there are situations error messages are incomplete, confusing
wrong.
may be is not a permission problem, sure NOT of your script,
but if in it you start an other program AND the deamon
is not allowed to do that .....
example:
put in a file (say: runme) the string: #!/bin/qqq
give permisions: chmod 755 runme
then start it: ./runme
the error will be: ./runme: Command not found

??? the A: not ./runme but /bin/qqq does not exists.

as perderarbo wrote: 777 is for dos-experts.

thanks for the replies,

i know i have to chmod 755 it, but hey when that didn't work with an permission denied error i tried 777

I think i found the problem, perderabo came with the answer.
The mailer couldn't read the dir, so it said permission denied.

Thanks for the solution guys!