levitz@fsucs.UUCP (Hilbert Levitz) (11/02/90)
We would be grateful for any advice concerning the following malfunction. It occurs intermittently but with intolerable freqeuncy. It has persisted through various kinds of sendmail, both the Ultrix sendmail, and the currently installed Berkeley 5.61 . The equipment in question is a VAX 11/780 running Ultrix V2.0-1. During the mail passing stage of the SMTP dialog if connection breaks off, the mail goes on the queue with the error message "Bad File Number". From this there is no automatic recovery. The item will hang on the queue with an asterisk, and no delivery of the mail will be made, even during later passes of the queue. Reoriginating the mail frequently succeeds. Hilbert Levitz Dept. Computer Science Florida State University levitz@cs.fsu.edu
levitz@fsucs.UUCP (Hilbert Levitz) (11/02/90)
Please excuse this second posting of the same article. It
seems that the address on the "From:" field of the header
is incorrect - another problem - so I would like to ask
resondents to reply to the address on the signature at
the bottom.
We would be grateful for any advice concerning the following
malfunction. It occurs intermittently but with intolerable freqeuncy.
It has persisted through various kinds of sendmail, both the Ultrix
sendmail, and the currently installed Berkeley 5.61 .
The equipment in question is a VAX 11/780 running Ultrix
V2.0-1.
During the mail passing stage of the SMTP dialog if connection
breaks off, the mail goes on the queue with the error message
"Bad File Number". From this there is no automatic recovery. The item
will hang on the queue with an asterisk, and no delivery of the mail
will be made, even during later passes of the queue.
Reoriginating the mail frequently succeeds.
Hilbert Levitz
Dept. Of Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
(904) 6441796
levitz@cs.fsu.edue07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) (11/05/90)
levitz@fsucs.UUCP (Hilbert Levitz) writes: > ... > During the mail passing stage of the SMTP dialog if connection > breaks off, the mail goes on the queue with the error message > "Bad File Number". From this there is no automatic recovery. The item > ... This bug has been solved since version 5.64. If you have an older version, proceed as follows: In the module smtpquit() in usersmtp.c you find the code (void) fclose(SmtpIn); (void) fclose(SmtpOut); which actually closes the same (socket) fileno twice. The second fclose sets errno to EBADF. The solution is to change in makeconnection() in daemon.c the line *infile = fdopen(s, "r"); to *infile = fdopen(dup(s), "r"); Another solution is to save errno before the first fclose, and to restore it after the second fclose in smtpquit(). Eric Wassenaar -- Organization: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 592 0412, Home: +31 20 909449, Telefax: +31 20 592 5155 Internet: e07@nikhef.nl