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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2857 comp.unix.solaris:22535 comp.unix.programmer:19862 comp.unix.misc:13818 comp.unix.aux:15425 comp.unix.bsd:14850 comp.unix.aix:43796 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Date: 4 Sep 1994 11:44:53 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <34cti5$sum@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33qg01$37k@hamlet.umd.edu> <33r43e$3us@Venus.mcs.com> <ATS4.94Sep1123729@clarion.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com In article <ATS4.94Sep1123729@clarion.wustl.edu>, Alan T Shutko <ats4@clarion.wustl.edu> wrote: > >Leslie> The main complaints about smail3 fall into 3 groups: (1) >Leslie> People with the misconfigured Slackware Linux distribution. > >Incidentally, what/where is that? I was having so much trouble with >smail (slackware 2) that I just switched to sendmail 8. (Which was >quite easy to configure). A set of patches was recently posted to the smail mailing list. I'll ask the author if he will post to the smail and Linux newsgroups also. The two main problems are not having any kernel file locking defined which ends up preventing SMTP retries from working, and a bug in the code that seems to only affect Linux. It calls ferror() on a closed fd after running "uuname" on a pipe, so the router always appears to fail. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com