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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help on Sendmail
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 23:20:21 EST
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reba%carcvax.uconn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa is having problems with
a new sendmail core dumping in malloc.

Your troubles are obvious to anyone who has run into them before.
You have a frozen config file (made by /usr/lib/sendmail -bz).
These depend not only on the configuration source file, but also
(get this) on the exact address of every little thing in your
sendmail binary.  Why?  Because the freeze file format is not well
designed (read: is a crock).

The solution is to ensure that whenever you install sendmail,
you also remove /usr/lib/sendmail.fc.  The `install' entry in
/usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail, and the one in /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail/src
as well (why are there two?  ridiculous!), should do this for
you.

(In case it is not already obvious, I think large parts of sendmail
are long overdue for a complete redesign and rewrite.)  (But I do
not promise to do it!)
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In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1415)
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