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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: installing mh 6.7 on a Sparc
Message-ID: <962@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 08:44:59 GMT
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Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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Hello all,

I've been attempting to install mh 6.7 on a Sparcstation but
have had only partial success.  The build succeeds without
any problem but "comp" (or more precisely, post) refuses to
send out posts.  The error that I receive is as follows:

>nada% comp
>
>What now? send
>post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
>send: message not delivered to anyone
>
>What now?

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about solving
this problem?  I tried setting mts to sendmail and to sendmail/smtp.
The sendmail/smtp version generates the above message and the 
sendmail version just hangs after I type send.

I built mh using the following MH file:

bin /p/bin/mh
etc /p/lib/mh
bboards off
bbdelivery off
debug off
pop off
ranlib  on
mail    mailbox
mailgroup   off
mandir  /p/man
manuals standard
chown   /etc/chown
mts sendmail/smtp
editor vi
mf  off
remove  rm -f
options ATHENA ATZ BIND ISI MHE DBM DUMB
options BSD42 BSD43 RPATHS SENDMAILBUG
options SUN40 NFS FOLDPROT='"0700"'
options OVERHEAD WHATNOW MHRC
ldoptions -s
ldoptlibs -ldbm
curses -lcurses -ltermcap
sharedlib on
slibdir /p/lib
~
Thanks for any assistance.

I have used an MH file very similar to the above to successfully
build MH on an HP 9000 running HPUX 7.0.
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas