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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Exit 70 from rmail?
Message-ID: <14976@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 4 Dec 89 23:32:29 GMT
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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I keep getting these messages from UUNET every so often when I
distribute mailing list material.  I asked the UUNET postmaster who gave
me a great big "duhhhh," so I would appreciate any help.

In Smail, exit 70 is EX_SOFTWARE and means that getmynames() was unable
to find a machine's own host name using uname(), *hostname or whatever.
Is this true for sendmail 5.61 (which I think UUNET uses) also?

(I have wrapped the following excerpt to fit 80 characters, and obscured
the user names for privacy's sake.)

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 89 17:23:44 -0500
From: uunet!uucp (UNIX-to-UNIX Copy)
To: bfmny0!tneff
Subject: uuxqt cmd (rmail wellfleet.com!NAME
uwav1.acs.washington.edu!NAME bbn.com!NAME apple.com!NAME
uns-helios.nevada.edu!NAME bbn.com!NAME cs.odu.edu!NAME fps.mcw.edu!NAME
star.enet.dec.com!NAME well.sf.ca.us!NAME lucifer.psyc.virginia.edu!NAME
forsythe.stanford.edu!NAME crd.ge.com!NAME ottar.cs.cornell.edu!NAME
cs.ucla.edu!NAME hpspkla.hp.com!NAME ucbernie.berkeley.edu!NAME
pyrnova.pyramid.com!NAME hpscdd.hp.com!NAME ncrcan.toronto.ncr.com!NAME
) status (signal 0, exit 70)

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"My God, Thiokol, when do you      \\    Tom Neff
want me to launch?  Next April?"   \\    tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET