peter@radig.UUCP (Peter Radig) (09/23/89)
Did anyone ever a port of sendmail to Sys V and checked it out how
to get the `freeze' routine working?
If I freeze my configuration file and try to start sendmail again
I get the messages
No local mailer defined
No prog mailer defined
Thanks,
Peter
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or: uunet!unido!radig!peterallyn@hp-sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) (09/28/89)
In article <1153@radig.UUCP>, peter@radig.UUCP (Peter Radig) writes: > Did anyone ever a port of sendmail to Sys V and checked it out how > to get the `freeze' routine working? time for a re-run.... From hp-sdd!allyn Wed Sep 7 11:24:06 1988 Path: hp-sdd!allyn From: allyn@hp-sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.59 on HP-UX Message-ID: <1488@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Date: 7 Sep 88 18:23:07 GMT References: <3077@hermes.ai.mit.edu> Sender: netnews@hp-sdd.HP.COM Lines: 21 In article <3077@hermes.ai.mit.edu>, wisner@altdorf.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: > When I run sendmail -bz, sendmail silently exits. This makes it seem > like the freeze was successful, but when a later sendmail tries to read > the frozen configuration it says "No local mailer defined" and dies > with a segmentation error. to fix the problem, remove the word "static" from the declaration of SymTab on or about line 38 of stab.c. this is due to a difference in the way arrays declared "static" are handled by the different (berkeley vs. system v) compilers. system v compilers put static data into the data section of the code file while static data goes into bss under berkeley. sendmail's freeze/thaw routines work by writing out and later restoring only the bss and dynamically allocated sections of the executing image. so the SymTab wasn't saved and it was empty in the new core image. -- From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin allyn@sdd.hp.com San Diego Division - or - Hewlett-Packard Company uunet!ucsd!hp-sdd!allyn