huntting@csn.org (Brad Huntting) (03/26/91)
If anyone could shed some light on this it would be much appreciated... I've had weird results using sendmail 5.65b+IDA1.4.3 on sparc stations running SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1... Everything seems fine on the Sun3 systems. One system (a SparcStation 1+ running 4.1) was upgraded to 5.65b and started PANICing whenever the daemon would start up (but not _right_ away, mabey when a queue run started)... I always run frozen on this system, so I don't know wheather _not_ freezing would have helped. Since this was an `operational' system I backed out right away, and chalked the whole thing up to Sun Insanity Syndrome. Latter, (after forgeting about the previous incident) I installed 5.65b on another sparc running 4.1... This time thing's seemed to be fine _except_ when the config file was frozen, where (according to trace) it would hang shortly after reading the sendmail.fc file... Well, other than that the 5.65b package seem great (runs like a charm on Ultrix 4.x)... I do appreciate the new default filename chanes (which moved most things into /usr/local). -- brad
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (03/26/91)
On 26 Mar 91 02:09:01 GMT, huntting@csn.org (Brad Huntting) said:
Brad> If anyone could shed some light on this it would be much
Brad> appreciated...
Brad> I've had weird results using sendmail 5.65b+IDA1.4.3 on sparc stations
Brad> running SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1... Everything seems fine on the Sun3
Brad> systems.
Brad> One system (a SparcStation 1+ running 4.1) was upgraded to 5.65b and
Brad> started PANICing whenever the daemon would start up (but not _right_
Brad> away, mabey when a queue run started)...
You have run into the 'pmeg' bug. Get patch 100092-03 and install it.
You can get a copy via anonymous FTP from
princeton.edu:pub/sun-fixes/sunos4.1/{100092-03.tar.Z,README.100092-03}
Brad> I always run frozen on this system, so I don't know wheather
Brad> _not_ freezing would have helped.
Freezing is not a problem if you use the uiuc/malloc.c instead of the
system malloc. Copy the uiuc/malloc.c into the src tree and update the
Makefile to add malloc.c to SRCS and malloc.o to OBJS. Also, remember
to add -Bstatic to the CFLAGS.
Brad> Since this was an `operational' system I backed out right away,
Brad> and chalked the whole thing up to Sun Insanity Syndrome.
On the brighter side, it all works without patching the kernel if you
compile the whole it and install it on a SunOS 4.1.1 machine.
Brad> Latter, (after forgeting about the previous incident) I installed 5.65b
Brad> on another sparc running 4.1... This time thing's seemed to be fine
Brad> _except_ when the config file was frozen, where (according to trace) it
Brad> would hang shortly after reading the sendmail.fc file...
See above use of uiuc/malloc.c ...
Brad> Well, other than that the 5.65b package seem great (runs like a charm
Brad> on Ultrix 4.x)... I do appreciate the new default filename chanes
Brad> (which moved most things into /usr/local).
Enjoy!
--
Mark D. Baushke
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM