Path: 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
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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.)

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