Hello,
I posted a question earlier, but thought I'd solved the problem. Here's
the situation:
System is IBM AIX 4.1
Running Sendmail 8.7.4 with the "local_procmail.m4" defined gives the
following local mailer definition and flags:
Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@SPfhn, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
Running without the "local_procmail.m4" gives the following local mailer
definition & flags:
Mlocal, P=/bin/bellmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@mn, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=mail $u
In *either* of these situations, sendmail will run okay, but then die and
leave the following messages in the syslog:
Mar 20 20:45:57 confused sendmail[21922]: UAA21922:
from=<sotnickd(_at_)underground(_dot_)net>, size=995, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<v01510100ad765bdb7428(_at_)[129(_dot_)7(_dot_)55(_dot_)218]>,
proto=SMTP, relay=dazed.boxtop.com [204.119.208.4]
Mar 20 20:45:58 confused sendmail[12964]: UAA21922: SYSERR(root): mailer local
died with signal 11
Mar 20 20:45:58 confused sendmail[12964]: UAA21922:
to=<sotnickd(_at_)confused(_dot_)ddv(_dot_)co
this happens with both Procmail and "Bellmail" which I guess is the
default for AIX.
I've changed the flags on bellmail back to the original AIX out of box
configuration which is this:
Mlocal, P=/bin/bellmail, F=lsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -F $g $u
and so far no crashes. (i take that back - my subscription request to
this list came back to me and caused the local mailer to die:
mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
LAA10092 1561 Thu Mar 21 11:23
<procmail-request(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE>
(mailer local died with signal 11)
<sotnickd(_at_)confused(_dot_)ddv(_dot_)com>
Could it be a permissions problem? Here's some permissions:
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root mail 27916 Sep 29 1994 /usr/bin/bellmail*
in /var/spool ( /usr/spool) :
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Mar 21 11:32 mail/
drwxrwx--- 2 root system 3072 Mar 21 11:32 mqueue/
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root mail 170980 Mar 09 18:11 /usr/local/bin/procmail*
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 27217 Mar 09 18:11 /usr/local/bin/lockfile*
Am I missing anything else? I have tons of disk space free...
My basic quesition is what flags could be causing procmail and bellmail
to be crashing like this? I'm wondering if a certain type of message is
causing the mailer to die.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Dave Sotnick
sotnickd(_at_)confused(_dot_)ddv(_dot_)com