danny%UUCP@YALE.ARPA@idacom.UUCP (01/29/87)
Another observating concerning network/uucp mail on DOMAIN/IX:
Whenever I issue
1. Any 'mail-type' command i.e. mailq, mail, sendmail, etc
generates the message 'syslog: socket: I/O error'
2. It seems impossible to run either sendmail or syslog
as a daemon process. I can only guess, but shouldn't
syslog be running in background?? (i.e. cause of #1)
Has anyone successfully installed the DOMAIN/IX mail? The Apollo documentation
is very sparse and the observed operation of the machine is VERY different
from our VAX running BSD4.2. (i.e. no syslog daemon )
Thanks again
Danny Wilson danny@idacom.uucp
IDACOM Electronics Ltd >or<
Edmonton, Alberta {ihnp4, ubc-vision}!alberta!ncc!idacom!danny
CANADApaul@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU.UUCP (02/04/87)
Whenever I issue 1. Any 'mail-type' command i.e. mailq, mail, sendmail, etc generates the message 'syslog: socket: I/O error' Are you running tcp_server? Is it starting up OK? Do you have localhost (or whatever host you are trying to log to) in your /etc/hosts file? We ended up compiling syslog from Vax sources, though, because we couldn't get the distributed syslog to work. 2. It seems impossible to run either sendmail or syslog as a daemon process. I can only guess, but shouldn't syslog be running in background?? (i.e. cause of #1) Our syslog would spin madly in the foreground, even when sendmail ran properly as a daemon. Has anyone successfully installed the DOMAIN/IX mail? Yup. Like you successfully play pinball. But the same as on Vaxes, Suns, etc. I think that running a Unix-style sendmail-/usr/spool/mail on the Apollo filesystem involves a few more subtleties than on a Vax because of the distributed nature of things. But we run a working setup with between 150-200 nodes. We did use the distributed sendmail, but now we run a more recent version of sendmail (5.31) in general, and a pretty current version (5.54) on a couple of nodes, in order to check out/debug using the bind name server. --paul