home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!mx-list
- From: pat@che.phys.Virginia.EDU
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Followup to: "error in device name" message on MX 3.1
- Message-ID: <009661af.9535cae0.3642@gomez.phys.virginia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 11:55:24 EST
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
- X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
- Lines: 37
-
- Thanks to Hunter Goatley and Carl Lydick, both of whom correctly suggested
- that I had a problem with the definition of FLQ_DIR which was causing me to
- encounter the following error whenever I tried to SEND using MX 3.1:
-
- >MAIL> send
- >To: mx%"user@site.edu" ! dummy user and site, of course
- >%RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation
-
- It turns out that I had defined FLQ_DIR in a nonstandard way which was
- perfectly legal as far as VMS is concerned, but unacceptable to MX; thus
- DCL commands like $ DIR FLQ_DIR worked normally, leaving me with the false
- impression that everything was set up properly. (I set up the faulty
- definition of FLQ_DIR some weeks back, and I'm afraid I can't remember why
- I was using a nonstandard definition; it was probably just part of a trial-
- and-error process.)
-
- Now I have a new question: my SMTP process is dying on me as soon as I try
- to SEND. The appropriate *.HDR_INFO, *.MSG_TEXT, *.SRC_INFO and *.SMTP_INFO
- files are being created in the (now correctly-defined) FLQ_DIR directory,
- but they all end up stranded there because SMTP has died. The VMS accounting
- utility tells me that SMTP is dying with status code 1000043C,
-
- %SYSTEM-F-OPCDEC, opcode reserved to DIGITAL fault at PC=!XL
-
- Does this ring a bell with anyone? A bug in MX 3.1 (i.e., "Try 3.1C, dummy!),
- or am I still doing something wrong?
-
- (A review of my MX environment: 7-node Vaxcluster, all nodes running VMS 5.5
- and CMU-TEK 6.6-5. MX 2.0 currently running successfully on all nodes with
- the exception of occasional failures to deliver, particularly to CERN in
- Europe (addresses ending in .CH). ROUTER, LOCAL and MLF run on 3 of the
- 7 nodes; SMTP runs on these 3 plus 1 other node, and all 7 nodes run
- SMTP Server.)
-
- - Patrick Walsh
- University of Virginia Department of Physics
- pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
-