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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: new user questions: mail, uucp, minicomm
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- References: <SIGLER.92Dec17155338@hp750.itg.ti.com>
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.165329.7432@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:53:29 GMT
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- John Sigler (sigler@hp750.itg.ti.com) wrote:
-
- : using SLS 98p5 and am experiencing problems with each also.
-
- : 1) Just typing mail causes a core and through elm or emacs rmail mail seems to
- : be sent but never arrives (I'm just trying it locally).
-
- That's because mail is probably core dumping. I'm not sure which version is
- being put into SLS right now - if it's the "stock" mailpak 1.3 "mail", it will
- almost certainly have problems. I put out two patches immediately after
- I released mailpak 1.3 to fix a problem or two with mail. I'll see if I can
- find them - or it might be best to wait until mailpak 1.4 is released (very
- soon now).
-
- : 3) I've had some problems setting up uucp. While browsing the net I've noticed
- : several people implying uucp does not work currently. Is this correct?
-
- uucp works fine, but there has been changes to the kernel that breaks stuff.
- The easiest thing to do is probably to recompile the kernel with the lines
-
- if(user_esp)
- send_sig(SIGSEGV, tsk, 1);
-
- commented out. Alternately, you might want to recompile uucp with the flag
- "-fwritable-strings".
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
-