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From: dla@chemsh.uucp (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.65 problem
Keywords: sendmail 5.65 problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.231219.3438@chemsh.uucp>
Date: 12 Jun 91 23:12:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.144147.4093@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
|> 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
|> --
|> Paul Pomes, Computing Services Office
|> University of Illinois - Urbana
|> Email to Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu

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