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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: What's the flag for the alias-file pipe to msgs under 3.1/2.1?
Summary: I flame myself.
Message-ID: <5435@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 90 22:49:14 GMT
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In article <5434@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Looking on other BSD's, one sees
>
>    msgs: "|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"
>
>But the -s is not documented in the section 6 man-page for msgs.


Okay, for no good reason I typed "msgs -s" on the keyboard and it
works fine.  Even the symbolic link /usr/msgs -> /usr/local/msgs
has no problem.  The problem is in the mailer itself, then.

But all it says in the bounce-message is:

    554 "|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"... unknown mailer error 13

I suspect this means that msgs returned 13.

It's also overwritten the /usr/msgs/bounds file with an empty
one.

Would anyone happen to have a PD msgs, or some Clues?

				--Blair
				  "I'm fresh out."