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Subject: Re: 1.94a3 problem invoking sendmail
From: "Earle F. Ake Mr" <akee @ wpdis03 . wpafb . af . mil>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: whitfb @ dorsai . org, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <ufan2zzsvse.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Aug 13, 96 00:22:25 am

According to Jason L Tibbitts III:
> 
> >>>>> "WB" == Whit Blauvelt <whitfb@dorsai.org> writes:
> 
> WB> Grabbed 1.94a3 because of the problem compiling wrapper in 1.93 for a
> WB> Linux system
> 
> Whoa!  First off, if you're just setting up alpha3, you might as well use
> the current version, 1.94alpha9.  <URL:ftp://ftp.sgi.com/other/majordomo/>
> Where is everyone getting alpha3?  It's not on the SGI site.
> 
> WB> BAD: The mailer  isn't executable or isn't valid.
> 
> Note that there should be something useful between the "mailer" and the
> "isn't".  My guess is that you're using your 1.93 majordomo.cf file, which
> is pretty much useless for 1.94 as there are so many new variables that
> you'll want to configure.  In particular, there is a new $mailer variable,
> though unfortunately it isn't used much until the big patch I'm working on
> gets in.  There is backwards compatibility; the test is being somewhat
> strict.

	I found the same problem.  The problem is the sample.cf has the
definition for sendmail_command while the majordomo.cf provided does not!
I was installing on a new system and found this.  Here is the fix.  This
is for the 1.94a9 I recently grabbed.


*** majordomo.cf.old	Wed Jun 15 16:10:07 1994
--- majordomo.cf	Mon Aug 26 23:33:31 1996
***************
*** 7,12 ****
--- 7,19 ----
  # $whoami_owner -- Who is the owner of the above, in case of problems?
  $whoami_owner = "Majordomo-Owner@$whereami";
  
+ # $sendmail_command -- Pathname to the sendmail program
+ #                      usually /usr/lib/sendmail, but some newer BSD systems
+ #                      seem to prefer /usr/sbin/sendmail
+ #
+ $sendmail_command = "/usr/lib/sendmail";
+ #$sendmail_command = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
+ 
  # $homedir -- Where can I find my extra .pl files, like majordomo.pl?
  # the environment variable HOME is set by the wrapper
  if ( defined $ENV{"HOME"}) {


-Earle
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