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Article #901Re: installing smail2.5 under 386ix (ISC 1.0.5)
From: Michael Richardson
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 19:32
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 19:32
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In article <14977@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >In article <897@telesci.UUCP> jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) writes: >>it seemed that a "rmail jep" and "sh -c /usr/lib/sendmail jep" processes kept >>being created, though after about 10 minutes, no mail was put into >>"/usr/mail/jep" and these processes kept starting up, ending and starting up >>again ... > >Possible recursion. Yes, but I don't believe that defines will necessarily fix things... The problem is in the definition of the local mailer in the sendmail.cf. It invokes /bin/lmail with an argv[0] of `mail'. (I had the same problem but I don't remember if changing the mailer definitions helped it at all. I did it the brute force way.) -- :!mcr!: Michael C. Richardson HOME: mcr@julie.UUCP SCHOOL: mcr@doe.carleton.ca WORK: ..uunet!mitel!sce!nrcaer!fts1!michael I never liked staying in one place too long, but this is getting silly...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael From: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: installing smail2.5 under 386ix (ISC 1.0.5) Summary: /bin/lmail and /bin/mail are the same in default installation Message-ID: <127@fts1.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 89 19:32:20 GMT References: <897@telesci.UUCP> <14977@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson) Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON Lines: 20