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Subject: Re: spurious ABORT message?
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 13 Nov 1996 13:30:32 -0600
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com, Stephen . Campbell @ Dartmouth . EDU
In-reply-to: Stephen Campbell's message of Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:02:14 -0500
References: <199611131402.JAA00499@avalon.dartmouth.edu>

>>>>> "SC" == Stephen Campbell <steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu> writes:

SC> Mailer /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi
SC> -fTuck.Alumni.Affairs.Office@Dartmouth.EDU tuck-alumni-news-outgoing
SC> exited unexpectedly with error 16384

SC> Yet the message seems to have been processed normally, albeit with
SC> several "user unknown" and "host unknown" addresses.  That value is
SC> 0x4000, which corresponds to an exit value of 64 decimal from
SC> sendmail.

And what does 64 map to in /usr/include/sysexits.h on your machine?  I'd
wager it's EX_USAGE, command line usage error.  See if there's any
information in the debug logs ($TMPDIR/*.debug).

SC> I notice that version 1.93 did not check the return status on the close
SC> of the pipe to sendmail, and 1.94 does. Any thoughts?

Well, you always have to check the status of the pipe close, though
unfortunately we can't capture the error output from Sendmail (no
bidirectional pipes).  We do the next best thing, which is redirecting the
errors to a file.
 
 - J<


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