Sendmail 5.59 on HP-UX

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2 total messages Started by Bill Wisner Wed, 07 Sep 1988 03:20

#2790

Author: Bill Wisner
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1988 03:20

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I recently finished making sendmail 5.59 work here on altdorf, an
HP 9000/350 running HP-UX 6.01. At this point the only problem I seem
to have is with configuration freezing.

When I run sendmail -bz, sendmail silently exits. This makes it seem
like the freeze was successful, but when a later sendmail tries to read
the frozen configuration it says "No local mailer defined" and dies
with a segmentation error.

Has anybody else encountered this behavior? It is obviously not
critical; sendmail can function fine without a frozen .cf. But it
would be nice to have. I have no idea what the problem might be. I
don't know enough about the innards of a Bobcat.

Re: Sendmail 5.59 on HP-UX

#2791

Author: Allyn Fratkin
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1988 18:23

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In article <3077@hermes.ai.mit.edu>, wisner@altdorf.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
> When I run sendmail -bz, sendmail silently exits. This makes it seem
> like the freeze was successful, but when a later sendmail tries to read
> the frozen configuration it says "No local mailer defined" and dies
> with a segmentation error.

to fix the problem, remove the word "static" from the declaration
of SymTab on or about line 38 of stab.c.

this is due to a difference in the way arrays declared "static" are
handled by the different (berkeley vs. system v) compilers.  system v
compilers put static data into the data section of the code file
while static data goes into bss under berkeley.  sendmail's freeze/thaw
routines work by writing out and later restoring only the bss and
dynamically allocated sections of the executing image.  so the SymTab
wasn't saved and it was empty in the new core image.

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 From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin            allyn%hpsdlx@sde.hp.com
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