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From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff)
Subject: Re: Sendmail and NetBSD-0.9
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 30 Aug 93 12:46:43 PDT
Message-ID: <1993Aug30.124644.23817@crash>
References: <22688@durer.cme.nist.gov>
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Rick Schneeman (schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov) wrote:
: Has anyone seen this error before from sendmail on NetBSD-0.9? It looks
: like sendmail is forking mail with a -r option which is illegal....
: 
: 
: | From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Aug 27 09:13:47 1993
: | 
: |    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
: | <postmaster@sst167.ncsl.nist.gov>  (hard error -- address deleted)
: | 
: |    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: | mail: illegal option -- r
: | Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
: |             [- sendmail-options ...]
: |        mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
: |        mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
: | 554 root... unknown mailer error 1
:  
: --

Mine won't even create the sendmail.fc with sendmail -bz!!!

What gives?