Re: [MiNT] smail probs

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

Ok just to complete the solving of the mystery:

Pine locked up because I didn't have suid on smail. This way smail
couldn't write to it's logfiles unless I was root when starting it. This
must have gone wrong when I copied another smail when I thought the
buserror was caused by a corrupted binary. :)

Aah my Falcy is finally back online. :)

Maurits.

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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Guido Flohr wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 01:00:45PM +0100, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> > > Whenever I start any smail instance (sendmail, runq, mailq, ...) from
> > > the bash I get a bus error.  The same from tcsh runs fine.
> > > 
> > > I had this problem about a year ago, it vanished and now it's back
> > > again although I haven't changed anything important in my setup.
> > > 
> > > Anybody has a similar problem?
> > 
> > Most definitely, I've been bugging everyone on IRC with it. :) I have two
> > similar problems:
> > 
> > 1. When I do runq from ip-up it produces a buserror. I have always had
> > this problem from the beginning on. Entering 'runq' in the shell works
> > fine.
> 
> Well, I have solved my problem: I recently unset $TZ in my /etc/profile
> (and forgot it in /etc/csh.cshrc) because I now use the tz database.
> If $TZ is not set at all or set to an illegal (unparsable) value all
> (KGMD-) smail instances crash with a bus error.
> 
> This is probably the solution for your ip-up problem.  Insert 
> 
> 	TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
> 
> into your ip-up script.
> 
> > 
> > 2. Since a few weeks, smtpd gives a buserror. This causes Pine to crash
> > when it wants to put mail in my queue, and when an outside server wants to
> > deliver mail to my system, the connection closes immediately. All other
> > instances of smail work.
> 
> Maybe the same problem.  Maybe a wrapper script around /usr/lib/sendmail
> (or /usr/sbin/sendmail, whichever is used) will do.  Rename your sendmail
> to sendmail.wrapped and install this script as sendmail:
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	
> 	TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0,M10.5.0 
> 	export TZ
> 	exec sendmail $*
> 
> Anyway, I downloaded qmail and will try to get it to run.  If I have success
> you will hear of it here.
> 
> BTW, if Pine doesn't call sendmail but talks to your smtpd via socket on
> port 25 you have to put that wrapper script around your in.smtpd.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Guido
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