taylor@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jem Taylor) (12/11/88)
Can anyone tell me what the problem is which causes failures like these ? We get one or two a day out of several hundreds of messages; the sender is a 4.3BSD MIPS/1000, running as a Yellow Pages server, while the receiver is a SUN 3 running SunOS 3.5, also a Yellow Pages server. ----- Begin Forwarded Message ----- |From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Dec 2 12:50:56 1988 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 88 12:50:52 GMT Message-Id: <69.8812021250@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Subject: Returned mail: System file missing To: pp ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 hawaii.ether... 554 System file missing 554 PAT@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK... System file missing ----- Unsent message follows ----- |From: Mr Paul Philbrow <pp> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 88 11:55:37 GMT Message-Id: <15731.8812021155@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> To: PAT@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK Subject: .... etc. ----- End Forwarded Message ----- Confused -Jem Taylor.
Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) (12/15/88)
| We get one or two a day out of several hundreds of messages; the sender | is a 4.3BSD MIPS/1000, running as a Yellow Pages server, while the receiver | is a SUN 3 running SunOS 3.5, also a Yellow Pages server. | Subject: Returned mail: System file missing | | 554 hawaii.ether... 554 System file missing Looking through the Sendmail source (5.52 with IDA in my case) I can only see two cases where EX_OSFILE is referenced. One occurs if sendmail.cf cannot be opened, and the other if the smtp service cannot be found from services.byname. Is it possible that your services database is sometimes faulty? Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------