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Subject: Update on Sendmail problems
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Date: 19 Oct 90 21:09:11 GMT
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After much additional poking around, a number of my previous 'conclusions'
were wrong re: the Sendmail problem I'm having under V4.0. What has come up
as the difference between the one system that works and the others is that
the one mounts its /usr via NFS, instead of having a local /usr. I have
tried this on another 'client' and it works there too. It only seems to fail
on the systems which have /usr local. I have removed all differences between
the systems' local roots and /var and I'm running out of clues. They are
all running the same copy of mail and sendmail, they are using the
same sendmail.cf, etc...

Anyone have any ideas what would be different for a system which mounts
/usr remote instead of having it local?

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u
abstine@polymer.che.clarkson.edu