Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: 554 System file missing Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 88 22:35:45 GMT References: <9016.8812102223@oba.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 10 To: taylor@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Here are two possible answers: If the site is running sendmail, it could mean that there is a problem with opening their sendmail.cf, or that sendmail cannot get the service number using getservbyname. There can be more... search for EX_OSFILE in the source if you have it.. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]