NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/admin/5835

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From: etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: sendmail, in.comsat, and biff
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Date: 25 Aug 92 19:28:29 GMT
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Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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I'm having a problem with sendmail on a IPC (OS4.1.2).  After some mysterious
event, sendmail nolonger delivers mail.  I bounces the mail back and reports
"user not found" when mail is sent to this machine.  I suspect that this
problem is related to a core in our /var/spool/mail, which is mounted from
our server.  The core is from in.comsat which seems to crash occasionally
for no appearent reason (the last one was in the middle of the night).
The configuration for this machine is identical to the others with the
exception that it is running 4.1.2 instead of 4.1.1.  At first I suspected
a OS conflict but we recently got two new machines also running 4.1.2 and
have had no problems.  I have not found a patch for this but suspect there
is one.  Does anyone know what causes this and which patch works?  I'm
getting desperate enough to try calling Sun again but without a answerline
contract...
Thanks in advance for any help.
Oh. one more note, biff has never worked on any machine but I suspect that
is due to the network.

            - E.T.
|Eddie Tsiao                         | [e-mail]     |
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