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From: jimr@maths.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: sendmail 5.61+IDA (was: sendmail & named)
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.014022.18375@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 01:40:22 GMT
References: <486@al.ele.tue.nl>
Reply-To: jimr@maths.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson)
Organization: Dept of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney
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In article <486@al.ele.tue.nl>, jos@ele.tue.nl (Jos van Eijndhoven) writes:
> ... I  tried to compile and install the original sendmail
>(version 5.61) on our apollos (DN3000 and DN2500).
>...
>It says 'Apollo-specific fault (UNIX/signal)' and exits.
>...
>In the conf.h file no specific changes were made,

The 'Apollo-specific fault' is caused by sendmail trying to change the process
argument vector argv[] in a way which trashes the stack.  To avoid this, comment
out the definition of SETPROCTITLE in conf.h (you should also comment out
the definition of YP).

I have recently got sendmail 5.61 with the IDA enhancements running under
SR10.2.  The trickiest part was to deal with cross-node locking of the
alias database.  I have a solution to this which works, except that it
does not permit automatic rebuilding of the database.

If there is sufficient interest I will post the patches: they are not very
large.

(Note that the IDA version of sendmail IS large -- about 600 kB.  It should be
available from a nearby friendly archive site.)

--
Jim Richardson
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
ACSNET: jimr@maths.su.oz   Internet: jimr@maths.su.oz.au

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