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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65 problem
Keywords: sendmail 5.65 problem
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Date: 12 Jun 91 14:41:47 GMT
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volf@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (frank volf) writes:

>Last week we decided that sendmail 5.65 would be nice on our nodes
>so we installed it.
>We took a copy of sendmail (sendmail.5.65apo.tar.Z) from master.uio.no and 
>installed the Apollo binary which was in the tarfile.
>Unfortunately this sendmail this not work. Here is session that shows
>our problems:
>
> ....
>mail: mail: can't find mail group

This problem is common to all the Apollo machines I have installed the 5.65b
(and 5.65c now in beta-test) IDA sendmail on.  My conclusion is that there is
some Apollo-specific initialization that sendmail must do before exec()ing
/bin/mail for local delivery.  My "fix" has been to install the binmail program
that comes in the sendmail distribution in place of /bin/mail.  This works,
however it then becomes yet another program that must be re-installed by hand
after an upgrade.  It also defeats my design goal of making IDA sendmail a
drop-in replacement.

Any suggestions for a better fix are welcome.  Hints from HP/Apollo would not
be unappreciated either.

/pbp
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Paul Pomes, Computing Services Office
University of Illinois - Urbana
Email to Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu