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From: bd@hpsemc.UUCP (bob desinger)
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Subject: Re: Help! slocal doesn't work on Sun
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 20:46:10 EST
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> We are trying to get MH 6.5 working on a Sun 2/170 ...
> Here is the problem (memory fault on slocal). What is .prog
> doing anyway? 
>
> /usr/sharat/.forward: line 1: sharat... forwarding to "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -
verbose  -user sharat"
> /usr/sharat/.forward: line 2: sharat... forwarding to \sharat
> "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -verbose  -user sharat"... Connecting to .prog...
> sh: 1792 Memory fault
> "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -verbose  -user sharat"... unknown mailer error 139
> \sharat... Connecting to .local...
> \sharat... Sent

Sendmail prints ".prog" to tell you that it knows you're mailing to a
program (from the leading `|' in the alias).  I'm not sure if that's what
you're asking, though.

If I was debugging it, I'd check the arguments to slocal for
correctness, and check the permissions on directories from / down to
slocal (to ensure that Sendmail can get to them).  Sendmail is quite
picky about file permissions, too---for example, mailing to a file
requires that the file be mode 0666 [or at least that restriction used
to be important]---so perhaps Sendmail doesn't like the permissions.
On the other hand, I wouldn't expect a memory fault to arise out of
mode problems.  There should be a "Sendmail Installation and
Configuration" document somewhere among the system admin papers that
came with your system; check that out.

Hope this gets you started,
bob desinger