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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
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Subject: Re: senmail / MX records
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Date: 12 Mar 91 03:53:43 GMT
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jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest) writes:

>|> I compiled sendmail 5.65 obtained from an ftp site at U of Illinois.
>|> It's working fine at 10.2 and 10.3. You need to undefine the SETPROCTITLE
>|> and compile the getloadavg.c that's supplied as a supplementary file.
>|> It's available at many sites. I think I got it from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, 
>|> or something like that.

>With the latest version from UIUC (5.65a) you don't need to change getloadavg -
>it uses the xload one. However, there would appear to be a slight bug on
>10.2/3 which is currently being worked on. I'd still mount this version
>though, I expect the fix will be a small patch (they usually are) and
>generally it seems to work fine.

Paul Pomes from uiuc just wrote to me advising the problem:

>The bug was found to be a previous patch that assumed that SIGCLD == SIGCHLD.
>When that isn't true (like on Apollos), two different signal handlers are
>in a race for the local mail child.
>
>It now works fine on Apollos.  I'm told that /bin/mail does not need to be
>replaced provided that the registry daemon is happy and running.

The new sendmail version is pub/sendmail-5.65b+IDA-1.4.3.tar.Z available at
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu

Seems to be rock solid so far on my DN3500 running sr10.3 which acts as our
gateway node.

	ian
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