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From: troy@awinc.com (Troy Ihmels)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.smail
Subject: smailbombs
Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:51:56 GMT
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Hi all,

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?

TIA,

Paul Archard