On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:06:17PM -0400, Christopher W. Richardson wrote:
> I'm seeing some odd behavior with the postfix script:
> 
> $NetBSD: postfix,v 1.6 2002/02/12 02:19:27 lukem Exp $
> 
> If I run it from anywhere outside of /etc/rc.d, it seems to work
> fine:

> However, if I run it from inside /etc/rc.d, it's unhappy:

> eval: Cannot fork

It sounds like you have the current directory (".") at the beginning
of your $PATH. When you run "/etc/rc.d/postfix reload", the script
runs "postfix reload", intending to run /usr/sbin/postfix. However,
when your current directory is /etc/rc.d, it's finding
/etc/rc.d/postfix in the $PATH before /usr/sbin/postfix, so it ends up
calling itself again and again until the process table is full.

It's dangerous to put "." at the front of your $PATH (it's dangerous
to have it anywhere in your $PATH, but if you _really_ want to have it
in there, make sure it's at the end).
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