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- From: panisset@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Sendmail won't deliver outside / or /usr
- Message-ID: <34624@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 23:22:39 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 53
-
- I am trying to get mail to run on an Indigo running 4.0.5. Things
- are very bizarre, since I am able to send mail to some users without
- any problems, but for some of the users mail bounces with the following
- headers:
-
- (anything between {} brackets has been replaced to protect the innocent...)
-
- Note this bit of bizarrenes: I thought I had my /usr/lib/sendmail.cf
- configure right...
- |
- v
- From root@somewhere Sat Dec 12 13:32:41 1992
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:41 -0500
- From: root@somewhere (Super-User)
- Apparently-To: root
-
- ***** UNDELIVERABLE MAIL sent to {user}, being returned by {host}!root *****
- mail: Error #8 'Invalid recipient' encountered on system {host}
-
- Received: by {host} (920330.SGI/911001.SGI)
- for {user} id AA13814; Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:40 -0500
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 13:32:40 -0500
- From: root (Super-User)
- Message-Id: <9212121832.AA13814@{host}>
- To: {user}
- Subject: test
-
- test
-
- --------------------------
- As I said, mail would barf for some users but not for others. I finally
- figured out that I was able to send mail to all users who had home directories
- (as specified in /etc/passwd) under /usr/people (or for that matter, it seems,
- anywhere in the / or /usr partition), but would fail for users with their
- home directories on a different partition on an external drive (all such
- users are in /sd4/u). I got things to work by telling /etc/passwd that
- the home directories for these users were in /usr/people and putting in
- there symbolic links to their real home directories in /sd4/u, but this
- seems like a rather gross kludge. BTW, the machine is not running NIS.
-
- Anybody knows what's going on? Surely someone else has tried (and failed?)
- to send mail to a user with a home directory on an external drive?
-
- Thanks in advance for any feedback,
-
- JF Panisset
-
-
- --
- Jean-Francois Panisset
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