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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Anton Zykov wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I haven't changed anything in my system. But now every
> time someone sends me an e-mail, I don't get the message and the following
> error shows up:
> 
> Apr 18 13:33:57 domain /kernel: pid 404 (mail.local), uid 0: exited on
> signal 11
> Apr 18 13:33:57 domain sendmail[403]: NAA00402: SYSERR(root) mailer local
> died with signal 11
> 
> Is there any way to fix it without reinstalling the whole system?

Does /var/log/maillog report anything unusual?

If you have the Live Filesystem CD for your version you could swipe the
mail.local executable from there.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major