chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/20/85)
The true fix, it seems to me, is to replace the `freeze' and `thaw' code with a compiled .cf format, easily read but independent of the exact binary version of sendmail and not containing all sorts of random things that should *not* be saved. At the same time, the uncompiled format of the configuration file should be redesigned. And sendmail should be split into many programs---five at the very least: two queue drivers (one for input and one for output), an SMTP receiver, an SMTP sender, and an address rewriter. But I am not about to attempt this myself. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu
campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) (10/21/85)
Mark Twain's comment about the weather seems to be appropriate
to sendmail as well:
"Everyone complains about it but nobody does anything about it."
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Boston MA 02109 / /
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ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvard.ARPA (broken because of bugs at Harvard)
or: maynard.UUCP:campbell@harvard.ARPA (works now but try above if no joy)scott@cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach) (10/24/85)
In the article referred to above, Stephen Muir notes that freezing his sendmail configuration file causes sendmail to blow up. (Sun Unix 4.2 Release 2) This is apparently due to the business of the VAX storing bytes on the disk in reverse order. I noticed this on our Gould. On swapping alternate bytes in the freeze file it works perfectly. And Stephen tells me this cures the sun problem too. So if you have the same problem run your freeze file through the following little program. [ I was going to post my byteswapping program but someone has pointed out to me that dd does that. How dare it?!? ] Of course the best idea would be to do a proper fix to sendmail. I had a wee shufty at the code and it seems to be just doing bog standard raw read/write the memory area to/from the disk. Any takers? The code is in <sendmail source>/main.c, functions freeze & thaw. -- Scott Larnach Janet: scott@uk.ac.ed.cstvax Edinburgh Unix Support Arpa: scott@cstvax.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 31 667 1081 x2629 Uucp: scott@cstvax.uucp