Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!percival.rain.com!nerd From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Include files munged (solution) Message-ID: <1991Mar22.010405.22108@percy.rain.com> Date: 22 Mar 91 01:04:05 GMT References: <1991Mar15.171216.1292@percy.rain.com> <1991Mar20.002546.22663@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: @percy.rain.com Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: percival.rain.com In article <1991Mar20.002546.22663@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: >In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: >>In article <1991Mar15.171216.1292@percy.rain.com> nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) writes: >> [...stuff deleted...} I am rid of NeXT's broken version of sendmail. >> >>care to elaborate on just how NeXT's sendmail is broken? > > Hmmm... I don't know if sendmail itself is broken, but it *is* a bit >antiquated. Seems to me someone recently sent me mail from their NeXT >and its sendmail was version 5.59 or some such fossil. Go get sendmail >5.65+IDA from uunet. At the time I ran into the problems it was easyest to just dump sendmail and move to smail. Makes for better consistency within my local & wide area networks. >... That's the most current I know of. What *is* >broken in NeXT's distribution is the sendmail.cf. The cf files (all of them) are only usable for very specific cases and I'm sure they work well in that context. I operate on a heterogenous network so have to roll my own. --- This is the bug report I sent to NeXT --- >From nerd Wed Mar 20 19:06:04 1991 >Subject: sendmail >To: bug_next@next.com, next_bug@next.com >Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 19:06:04 PST >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > >When trying to freeze the configuration file (/usr/lib/sendmail -bz) sendmail >coredumps. I beleive that this is due to the lack of sbrk(2) et all and the >senmail.cf file is not needed. The obvious fix is to remove the -bz option >from the man page and add a note about this in the BUGS section. I lost >many hours due to this and eventualy solved my problems by porting smail >to the NeXT. -- Michael Galassi | nerd@percival.rain.com MS-DOS: The ultimate PC virus. | ...!tektronix!percy!nerd