Mark

I'm actually not using Sendmail/iX for anything except outgoing mail.  Is
this problem supposed to only strike inbound mail users?
___
Tony Newton


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 11:17 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Is this Sendmail trap familiar to anybody?
>
>
> Yes, very familiar if you're trying to do inbound e-mail with
> Sendmail/iX.  See
> my HP3000-L posting from yesterday:
>
> http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0012d&L=hp3000-l&F=&
> S=&P=20099
>
> I lack the bixby.org time to fix this problem in Sendmail/iX.
>  An alternative
> way to fix this would be to submit an enhancement request to
> HP asking for all
> of the fields in /usr/include/pwd.h after "the following fields are
> uninitialized until further notice" to be initialized with
> NULL for the
> pointers and zero for the integers.  The POSIX functions
> getpwnam() and
> getpwuid() would need to be enhanced to supply these default
> values.  Such an
> enhancement would be very consistent with other "porting
> enabling" work the lab
> has done in the past and continues to do in the future.
>
> But enhancement requests submitted by real life customers
> mean more than
> internal enhancement requests submitted by CSY engineers.
> The HPRC is waiting
> to take your call.  ;-)
>
> If somebody does file this enhancement request, please let me
> know what the SR
> number is so I can mention it on my Sendmail/iX web page.
>
> - Mark B.
>
> "Newton, Tony" wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Does anybody recognize this Sendmail error?  I'm getting it
> on several of my
> > 6.5P1 machines.  The last time that I used Sendmail it
> worked fine, but that
> > was when I was on 5.5P7.
> >
> > SYS/PUB:mailx -s "Backup has completed" newtont2
> >
> > .
> > EOT
> > Null message body; hope that's OK.
> > newtont2... User unknown
> > **** Data memory protection trap (TRAPS 68).
> >
> > ABORT: SENDMAIL.PUB.SENDMAIL
> > NM PROG  390.00074170 buildfname+$30
> > [1] + Done(138) ?
> >   9044198    Bus error   /SENDMAIL/PUB/SENDMAIL
> >
> > run mailx.hpbin.sys;info='-s "Backup has completed" newtont2'
> > Program terminated in an error state. (CIERR 976)
> > PHP6-SYS/PUB:
> >
> > ____
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> >
> > <<All views are mine and probably only mine>>
>
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