Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!matt.ksu.ksu.edu!samitha From: samitha@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Samitha Amarasiri) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Canonical hostname??? Message-ID: <1990Sep8.223900.22719@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 8 Sep 90 22:39:00 GMT Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Reply-To: samitha@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Samitha Amarasiri) Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Distribution: na Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 28 I have a "cron" job that checks for the existance of a certain file, and if the file is found, mails it to a group of users. This was working fine for some time. However I have been getting the following mail from root, starting about a couple of weeks ago. I hasten to add that this happens only intermittently. >Your "cron" job > >'/home/matta/samitha/post' > >produced the following output: > >rewrite: cannot prescan canonical hostname: >send: 18735 Memory fault Any ideas/comments/suggestions are extremetly welcome. Please be kind enough to email your responses to me since I do not read this newsgroup regularly. --Samitha Amarasiri +----------------------------------+------------------------+ |BITNET :samitha@ksuvm |KSU Computing Activities| |INTERNET:samitha@matt.ksu.ksu.ed |Cardwell Hall, Manhattan| |PHONE :(913) 532-6311 |KS 66505 | +----------------------------------+------------------------+