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From: goldberg@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Jeffrey Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Help! slocal doesn't work on Sun
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 13:59:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 13:59:30 1987
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In article <8711242334.aa05119@ICS.UCI.EDU> bd@hpsemc.UUCP (bob desinger) writes:

[someone pointing out that slocal dumps core on a Sun 2/170]

>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.

>Hope this gets you started,
>bob desinger

I wasn't the one who posted the original question but I have the
same problem.  The problem is not with the sendmail/slocal
interaction; so there is no need to go into thw bowels of sendmail.

I know this because I fed slocal a legal mail message by hand, and
it still bombed.

A few months ago I posted the same question, for a Sun 3/280S and
every Sun users who knew what slocal was for reported the same
problem with MH 6.4 and 6.5.

One person told be that they got it to work by recompiling all of
MH with the -g compiler flag.  I haven't done that yet, though I
did try it with the -go flag (I wanted to save on space).  It did
not work.  I will try recompiling with the -g flag anyday now.

-jeff goldberg


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Jeff Goldberg         Internet: goldberg@russell.stanford.edu