john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (12/18/88)
I am still not having any luck with getting Smail 2.5 running on
V/386. As I mentioned before, I have it running fine on Sys V/AT and I
simply recompiled the source on V/386. It compiled clean but doesnt work
properly. If I simply use mailx to send " mailx john" I get:
/bin/rmail: illegal option --s
valid flags are cdvArRiLH......
I get the same error when trying to use "elm john". If I simply
use /bin/mail as in "mail john", this works fine.
I'm not sure why Smail is working on Sys V/AT and not on V/386.
I've checked everything I can think of and am coming up blank. This
single program is keeping the 386 off the USENET link. If anyone has Smail
running on V/386 and can offer some suggestions I'd be happy to hear
from you. Thanks.
John
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Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (12/18/88)
Try putting this in /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc set sign=.signature set Sign=.signature set sendmail=/bin/rmail set keep -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Support ISO 8859/1 zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI umix!b-tech!zeeff
bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) (12/18/88)
In article <714@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
: If I simply use mailx to send " mailx john" I get:
:
: /bin/rmail: illegal option --s
: valid flags are cdvArRiLH......
:
: I get the same error when trying to use "elm john". If I simply
: use /bin/mail as in "mail john", this works fine.
I can't help you with elm. But for mailx all you have to do is RTFM.
Try adding
set noaddsopt
to /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc .
: I'm not sure why Smail is working on Sys V/AT and not on V/386.
: I've checked everything I can think of and am coming up blank. This
: single program is keeping the 386 off the USENET link. If anyone has Smail
: running on V/386 and can offer some suggestions I'd be happy to hear
: from you. Thanks.
I use smail and it works fine.
---
Bill
{uunet|novavax}!proxftl!twwells!billraw@ushiva.UUCP (Roland Wilcher) (12/20/88)
In article <714@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > > I am still not having any luck with getting Smail 2.5 running on >V/386. As I mentioned before, I have it running fine on Sys V/AT and I >simply recompiled the source on V/386. It compiled clean but doesnt work >properly. If I simply use mailx to send " mailx john" I get: > >/bin/rmail: illegal option --s >valid flags are cdvArRiLH...... > Did you remember to link /bin/smail to /bin/rmail ? I had this problem when I upgraded to 3.0e after restoring from backups. The original rmail was being evoked instead of smail. ----- "There is no statute of limitations on stupidity." raw@neologic%hal.cwru.edu Randomly produced by a computer program {hal,decvax}!ncoast!ushiva!raw called Markov3. Roland A. Wilcher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jonathan@ism780c.isc.com (Jonathan C. Broome) (12/20/88)
In article <714@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
: properly. If I simply use mailx to send " mailx john" I get:
:
: /bin/rmail: illegal option --s
: valid flags are cdvArRiLH......
I ran into this in a past life... System V.3 added the "-s" option to
/bin/mail, which mailx seems to (usually) use. The fix was to modify
"svbinmail.c" from the smail distribution to recognize "-s" as an option
for /bin/mail (add "s" to the getopt string and the following switch statement.)
Sorry, no diffs, this is from memory.
---Jonathan Broome
ism780c!jonathan@uunet.uu.net