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From: scwilson@dlp016.dal.mobil.com (The Rhino Dreamer Scwilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Stupid problem with ELM
Date: 27 May 1993 11:46:41 GMT
Organization: Mobil Oil
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In article <738477181wkn6333@edmund>, gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes:
|>
|> Unfortunately I don't fall into that "kernel hacker" category.
|> Could somebody explain how to get ELM2.4-PL21 working under
|> NetBSD?? I ran configure, which bombed at 1688 in the CPP options
|> section. So I commented that out since I didn't really need any
|> and configure ran ok. lib/opt_utils.c had a tolower() and toupper()
|> that conflicted with the gcc clib, but did the same thing, so I
|> deleted the one in opt_utils.c.
|> Commenting out POSIX_SIGNALS (sp?) and HASPROCSIGMASK (sp?) allowed
|> me to compile it ok.
|> It seems to work, reads mail fine, says it's sending it, but all the
|> messages it sends are empty. I ran it with "-D 5" and it looks like
|> it is getting an errno=2 on a "stat" of the vi tmp file "/tmp.snd.xxx"
|> but tmp is 777 and elm is setgid!
I had the same problem last week. The problem I found was that elm "writes"
a shell command that runs sendmail trying to send the temp file. Unfortunately
the shell command doesn't do what it should do. I just changed the way the shell
command is written until I got it to work.
The line is in src/mailmsg2.c and I made it look like this.
sprintf(very_long_buffer,"(%s %s %s <%s; %s %s) &",
mailer, mailerflags, expanded_to,
whole_msg_file, remove_cmd, whole_msg_file);
That seems to make the thing send the message just fine. It only took me a day
and a half to get this figured out, but then I'm not a programmer.
Good luck, Steve.