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From: paul@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  'mail' in DOMAIN/IX
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 08:56:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 08:56:23 1987
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	Whenever I issue
	
	1.	Any 'mail-type' command i.e. mailq, mail, sendmail, etc
		generates the message 'syslog: socket: I/O error'

Are you running tcp_server?  Is it starting up OK?  Do you have
localhost (or whatever host you are trying to log to)
in your /etc/hosts file?  We ended up compiling syslog from
Vax sources, though, because we couldn't get the distributed syslog to
work.

	2.      It seems impossible to run either sendmail or syslog
		as a daemon process. I can only guess, but shouldn't
		syslog be running in background?? (i.e. cause of #1)

Our syslog would spin madly in the foreground, even when sendmail
ran properly as a daemon.

	Has anyone successfully installed the DOMAIN/IX mail? 

Yup.  Like you successfully play pinball.  But the same as on Vaxes,
Suns, etc.  I think that running a Unix-style sendmail-/usr/spool/mail
on the Apollo filesystem involves a few more subtleties than on a Vax
because of the distributed nature of things.  But we run a working
setup with between 150-200 nodes.

We did use the distributed sendmail, but now we run a more recent
version of sendmail (5.31) in general, and a pretty current version
(5.54) on a couple of nodes, in order to check out/debug using the bind
name server.


--paul