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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu!decwrl!cronkite.cisco.com!iverson From: iverson@cisco.com (Tim Iverson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.smail Subject: Re: smailbombs Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:56:19 GMT Organization: cisco Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4h2tjj$db7@cronkite.cisco.com> References: <4h01uc$b6q@kryten.awinc.com> <DnHAHM.3Aq@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rottweiler.cisco.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14766 comp.mail.smail:2097 In article <DnHAHM.3Aq@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: >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 > >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) I'm running smail-3.1.28 on the 950210-SNAP of 2.1 (yeah, it's old - I'll upgrade sometime ...). It works great. Porting was non-trivial, though; there was lots of stuff that needed fixing, mostly due to incompatibilities in some of the Bourne shell scripts. I have patches - send e-mail if you want them. - Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com