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To: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsus.com>
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Hi,

Whoops I forgot to mention that I am using 4.1-release.
I will check this information.

Thanks,
Rich.

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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Weldon S Godfrey 3 wrote:

> 
> I had a simular problem with mail.local when I used the generic BSD .mc
> file given with the latest sendmail distribution file when I tried to
> create my own sendmail.cf file.  I don't remember it reporting a problem
> writing in /tmp, I remember it was with writing to files in /var/mail
> (permission errors)
> 
> I discovered that with 4.3. there is a freebsd.mc file there and if you
> use "make" it will build you a .cf file from that mc file.  (which is very
> nice)  That fixed my problem.
> 
> The feature I saw in freebsd.mc that I haven't seen before was
> local_lmtp...I guess that had something to do with it.
> 
> I dunno...I didn't pursue it further after the problem went away :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Rich Fox wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having a problem where mail.local can not create a temporary
> > file, and I can't get mail delivered properly as a result. It is
> > attempting to create a file in /tmp which looks like...
> >
> > drwxrwxrwt   5 root  wheel      512 May 23 06:05 tmp
> >
> > I as myself and root can both create files in /tmp, without issue. I
> > killed off many daemons thinking that perhaps I had too many file
> > descriptors open (I really don't know what I am talking about here), but
> > nothing helped.
> >
> > I could not find any specific information relating to this in the
> > archive, or even anything I could graft onto this problem.
> > Has anybody had experience with this?
> >
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> >   | rich@f2sys.net
> >   | www.f2sys.net
> >   | 5927 Ridge View Drive
> >   | Alexandria, VA 22310-2074
> >   | t:703.528.9616
> >   | f:703.528.0599
> >
> >
> >
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