Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!jnelson From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: sendmail problem Message-ID: <1208@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 19:51:50 EST Article-I.D.: trwrba.1208 Posted: Sat Jan 5 19:51:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 04:11:05 EST References: <9500005@txsil.UUCP> Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 38 Anybody familiar with this problem? Are you kidding? I've been "familiar" with this problem for several months. After searching numerious hours I decided to show my weakness and to ask help for my following bug: in sendmail I get currently the message after every mail to another user: Cannot open /dev/console: Bad file number I am totally confused because this seemed to be caused by the functioncall: fopen(e->e_df, "r") in `putbody()' my sendmail tries to open /dev/console for reading but why??? There are other instances of "Cannot open" something in sendmail. Another one is an attempt by sendmail to open the console for logging delivery (see sendmail/lib/syslog.c). Berkeley left the DEBUG switch on and thus the ifdef EBUG caused sendmail to always try to log the message to the console. Another problem is that recompiling sendmail seems to rely on sccs which we don't have so I can't modify sendmail just yet. biff y does not work anymore Our biff failed as well. This problem occured after shuffeling with the hostname/uucpname. Ours occured immediatly after we installed the mail software distributed by Symbolics to support their Chaosnet system. Installation of this software also required shuffling of the hostname. seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!jnelson - John