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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: smailbombs
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Message-ID: <DnHAHM.3Aq@twwells.com>
References: <4h01uc$b6q@kryten.awinc.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:03:22 GMT
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In article <4h01uc$b6q@kryten.awinc.com>, Troy Ihmels <troy@awinc.com> wrote:
: not sure if this is smail or FreeBSD related... Running FreeBSD port of smail
: 3.1.29.1.  Every few minutes the following happens:-
:
: (from syslog) mail /kernel: pid 8769: smail: uid 19218: exited on signal 11
:
: obviously this generates a core file in the process.
:
: We've tried swapping the RAM, then the entire machine except hard drive.  No
: joy.
:
: We've previously run smail on SCO without this problem. Is anyone else getting
: this or have any ideas?

I have the same problem. At the moment, I'm working around it by
running smtpd from inetd. Not terribly efficient but at least I
don't get any complaints about my mail server being down.

(BTW, FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE)