garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (10/14/90)
Hello all, I've been attempting to install mh 6.7 on a Sparcstation but have had only partial success. The build succeeds without any problem but "comp" (or more precisely, post) refuses to send out posts. The error that I receive is as follows: >nada% comp > >What now? send >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available >send: message not delivered to anyone > >What now? Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about solving this problem? I tried setting mts to sendmail and to sendmail/smtp. The sendmail/smtp version generates the above message and the sendmail version just hangs after I type send. I built mh using the following MH file: bin /p/bin/mh etc /p/lib/mh bboards off bbdelivery off debug off pop off ranlib on mail mailbox mailgroup off mandir /p/man manuals standard chown /etc/chown mts sendmail/smtp editor vi mf off remove rm -f options ATHENA ATZ BIND ISI MHE DBM DUMB options BSD42 BSD43 RPATHS SENDMAILBUG options SUN40 NFS FOLDPROT='"0700"' options OVERHEAD WHATNOW MHRC ldoptions -s ldoptlibs -ldbm curses -lcurses -ltermcap sharedlib on slibdir /p/lib ~ Thanks for any assistance. I have used an MH file very similar to the above to successfully build MH on an HP 9000 running HPUX 7.0. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas
mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) (10/21/90)
In article <962@nada.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes: >Hello all, > >I've been attempting to install mh 6.7 on a Sparcstation but >have had only partial success. >> >>post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available >>send: message not delivered to anyone >> >Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about solving >this problem? I had this exact same problem on a uVAX running ULTRIX. The problem was not the machine or the os, it was because I decided NOT to run a sendamil daemon. It looks like mh wants to talk to the sendmail daemon and can't find one. Put the following line in you mtstailor file (probably /p/lib/mh/mtstailor): servers: machine.running.sendmail.daemon in my case the line looks like this (ms.secs.csun.edu runs the sendmail daemon): servers: ms.secs.csun.edu I configured my system to use sendmail/smtp. This should solve your problem. Mike. ----- -- Mike Temkin mst@csun.edu Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science Voice phone: (818) 885-3919