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From: bobfe@ids.net (Bob Fayne - IDS World Network Tech Support)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Strang and ANNOYING uuxqt errors
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:12:04 EST
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service
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I'm currently running Sendmail v8 with Taylor UUCP v1.05 on FreeBSD 2.1.
I'm getting ready to install v1.06.1 of Taylor,but I keep having these
strange errors and I want to make sure it's not because of a compile option
that I need to change.
The problem seems to result from a returned undeliverable email message.
Once in a while my system seems to totally lose it, and starts bouncing
error messages like this all over the place...
From: host1 <paperboy!host1>
To: host2!rmail
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:40:31 -0500
Subject: Execution failed
Message from UUCP on mailman Fri Dec 15 18:40:31 1995
Your execution request failed because you are not permitted to execute
(john.doe@host.domain.com)
on this system.
Execution requested was:
(john.doe@host.domain.com)
This is particularly annoying because the error message seems to get
finally delivered to a *random* site. It never seems to end up at
the site "host.domain.com".
This is what I see in my UUCP Log file.
uuxqt mailman daemon (1995-12-15 18:40:31.62 16900) ERROR: Not permitted to
execute (username@domain.com)
uuxqt mailman daemon (1995-12-15 21:09:03.47 21140) ERROR: Not permitted to
execute (username@domain.com)
I've been told that it's a sendmail-related problem, that either $f or
$h have invalid values. I'm still learning with sendmail, and that
honestly doesn't get me much closer to a solution. :(
The applicable lines from my sendmail.cf file are below. Nothing that
I can see looks like it's the source of the problem.
Muucp-dom, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhu, S=52/31, R=21, M=2000000,
A=uux - -r -z -a$f $h!rmail ($u)
Muucp-uudom, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhu, S=72/31, R=21, M=2000000,
A=uux - -r -z -a$f $h!rmail ($u)
I've read the FAQ, bought the book, and seen the movie...still lost.
Bob Fayne
IDS World Network