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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: mailer error no
Message-ID: <91447@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 08:25:38 GMT
References: <22070@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <22070@duke.cs.duke.edu>, jit@slic.cellbio.duke.edu (Jit Keong Tan) writes:
> 
> Hi, where can I find the MEANING of the mailer error number such as:
> Mar 14 13:21:16 slic sendmail[14131]: mailer error, mailer=ether error=69
> Mar 14 14:48:39 slic sendmail[934]: mailer error, mailer=local error=67
> I would like to know what does the error number mean.

A hack (like me) would `grep 69 /usr/include/sys/errno.h` and apply
imagination, experience, and perhaps some fine manual to the result.

> Are [14131] and [934] the PID's of the sendmail childs ?

They're PID's of sendmail's tho not necessarily children of the
sendmail running with '-bd -q15m'.   Think of UUCP and of out going mail.

If you really care about this stuff, read the sendmail documentation we
ship.  Unhappily, it's the best you can get, straight from Dr. Sendmail
himself.  Be warned that sendmail.cf is known to cause early onset
Alzhiemer's in 37% of those exposed.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com