From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 21:44:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24694 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24634 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA16295; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:43:49 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: "Randall D. DuCharme" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper dies with bulletins In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the bulletin feature is still a little broken. It kind of works for us using ".popbull" files rather than the db. We always end up with about 10 users that get their .popbull file zeroed every time. Nothing odd about their dirs... Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Randall D. DuCharme wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to get the bulletin feature working on a 3.0-980426-SNAP > machine. I'm starting popper from /etc/inetd.conf with the -b > switch. The file "bulldb.db" exists in that directory and popper works > fine until I add a bulletin. When I do, popper dies ( sig 11 ) on every > invocation. When I remove the bulletin... things work fine. > > According to the man page on popper you can create a bulletin by using a > mail client and mailing it to yourself. I did this with pine and exported > it. The first line is "From" as stated in the man page. Can't figure out > what's happening. > > Any Ideas? > > Thanks > > -- > Randall D DuCharme > Systems Engineer Novell, Microsoft, and UNIX Networking Support > Computer Specialists Free Your Machine.... FreeBSD > 414-253-9998 414-253-9919 (fax) The Power To Serve! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message