Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!glasgow!Andrew.Findlay
From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
Subject: Re: 554 System file missing
Message-ID: <15653.8812141733@Suleika.me.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Dec 88 16:32:55 GMT
Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
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In-Reply-To: <9016.8812102223@oba.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>; from "Jem Taylor" at Dec 10, 88 10:23 pm
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| We get one or two a day out of several hundreds of messages; the sender
| is a 4.3BSD MIPS/1000, running as a Yellow Pages server, while the receiver
| is a SUN 3 running SunOS 3.5, also a Yellow Pages server.

| Subject: Returned mail: System file missing
| 
| 554 hawaii.ether... 554 System file missing

Looking through the Sendmail source (5.52 with IDA in my case) I can
only see two cases where EX_OSFILE is referenced. One occurs if
sendmail.cf cannot be opened, and the other if the smtp service cannot
be found from services.byname.

Is it possible that your services database is sometimes faulty?

Andrew

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