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Subject: Re: spurious ABORT message?
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:07:18 -0600
To: Stephen . Campbell @ Dartmouth . EDU
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:53:00 -0500"
References: <199611132053.PAA01902@avalon.dartmouth.edu>

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

SC> You are correct that it means EX_USAGE, but there is nothing in the
SC> debug log about this incident.  Why did you suspect EX_USAGE? I can
SC> find nothing invalid in that command.

I suspect EX_USAGE because I've seen it before, and I have some of
sysexits.h memorized.  I have never been able to determine why sendmail
likes to exit with this status, although combing the sources might help.

Combing Sendmail 8.7.3, which I happen to have the source out for, I see
the following three places where it would exit with EX_USAGE without
printing anything to stderr:

When it's processing arguments and falls through the case statement.

After it does delivery, when errors were encountered during delivery:

        /*
        **  Scan argv and deliver the message to everyone.
        */

        sendtoargv(av, CurEnv);

        /* if we have had errors sofar, arrange a meaningful exit stat */
        if (Errors > 0 && ExitStat == EX_OK)
                ExitStat = EX_USAGE;


If something blows in a rewrite rule.

Do any of these look possible?  If your problem is repeatable, you might
consider turning up the sendmail debuging level and see if anything comes
out of it.

 - J<


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