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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Anton Zykov <zykov@dickinson.edu>
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Subject: Re: HELP! mail.local died
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Anton Zykov wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Anton Zykov wrote:
> > > 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?

> maillog file says:
> Apr 18 19:47:29 domain sendmail[846]: TAA00846: from=<...> ...
> 
> Apr 18 19:47:30 domain sendmail[847]: TAA00846: SYSERR(root) mailer local
> died with signal 13
> Apr 18 19:47:30 domain sendmail[847]: TAA00846: to admin, delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Deferred
> 
> My system was up for quite a long time and that it started suddenly. I
> have reinstalled FreeBSD-2.2.1. I worked OK for 10 minutes and then the
> same errors started again.

Is this a new machine?

Sig13...SIGPIPE, broken pipe.  Try running mail.local manually and see if
it's a permission problem.

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