554 System file missing

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3 total messages Started by Jem Taylor Sat, 10 Dec 1988 22:23

#3018

Author: Jem Taylor
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1988 22:23

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Can anyone tell me what the problem is which causes failures like these ?
We get one or two a day out of several hundreds of messages; the sender
is a 4.3BSD MIPS/1000, running as a Yellow Pages server, while the receiver
is a SUN 3 running SunOS 3.5, also a Yellow Pages server.

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|From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Dec  2 12:50:56 1988
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 88 12:50:52 GMT
Message-Id: <69.8812021250@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: Returned mail: System file missing
To: pp

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554 hawaii.ether... 554 System file missing
554 PAT@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK... System file missing
		
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|From: Mr Paul Philbrow <pp>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 88 11:55:37 GMT
Message-Id: <15731.8812021155@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
To: PAT@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK
Subject: ....

etc.	
	


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Confused -Jem Taylor.

Re: 554 System file missing

#3022

Author: Eliot Lear
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 22:35

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Here are two possible answers:

If the site is running sendmail, it could mean that there is a problem
with opening their sendmail.cf, or that sendmail cannot get the
service number using getservbyname.

There can be more... search for EX_OSFILE in the source if you have
it..
-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@net.bio.net]

Re: 554 System file missing

#3025

Author: Gunnar Lindberg
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 14:39

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In <9016.8812102223@oba.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> taylor@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
(Jem Taylor) asks about:

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    554 hawaii.ether... 554 System file missing
    554 PAT@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK... System file missing

on a 4.3BSD MIPS/1000 system run as an YP server.

Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) brought up:

    Looking through the Sendmail source (5.52 with IDA in my case) I can
    only see two cases where EX_OSFILE is referenced. One occurs if
    sendmail.cf cannot be opened, and the other if the smtp service
    cannot be found from services.byname.

Here's my 2 cents: We run a few VAXen with MtXinu 4.3BSD and one
annoying thing was "getservbyname()" that simply didn't make it,
sometimes...

We called MtXinu and there showed to be an error in "ndbm.c",
which made "ypserv" loose track of next entry in "services.byname"
(which is the only map that is scanned instead of being directly
accessed) *if* somebody else had called in the meantime (yes, a
real Heisenbug :-).

The error does not seem to exist in SunOS 3.* so you could possibly
test by using "/usr/etc/yp/ypset" to point to either Sun or MIPS as
server and then do several "ypcat services" in parallell and compare
the output.

	Gunnar Lindberg
	Dept of Comp Sc, Chalmers Univ of Tech

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