And beating everyone else to the finish line was:
K.Meehan@ma30.bull.com (Ken Meehan)
Who pointed me toward the sendmail.fc file that I had deleted
and made sure wouldn't come back the last time it happened, but did anyway.
I removed it again and restarted sendmail. Things seem to be working
now.
My thanks to Ken and all the others who have sent
suggestions that haven't arrived yet.
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mail seems unable to deliver to local users on the server
of a small network here. (running SunOS 4.1.2)
The error message that appears in /var/adm/messages is of the form:
sendmail[9262]: AA09262: SYSERR: Who are you?: No such file or directory
And the message that gets sent to the postmaster is of this form:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 02:31:13 EDT
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <BGSU-MAILER@dad.bgsu.edu>
> To: postmaster@andy.bgsu.edu
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 451 Who are you?: No such file or directory
> 550 hasley... User unknown
> ----- Message header follows -----
[[ irrelevant stuff deleted ]]
Clients that share the same /var/spool/mail directory can send mail.
I receive mail from other machines locally and from mailing lists,
so (based on my limited experience with mail) my assumption is that
this is a problem with binmail rather than sendmail.
If I telnet to the smtp port, 'EXPN' and VRFY commands give the proper
responses. (But it was already assumed this was a local problem.)
(Correction -- it isn't working now, although it was when I started
composing this it did work.)
And when I try to remake the aliases file (with sendmail -bi),
sendmail dumps core.
I put in the security patch to mail, but that was months ago, so it
isn't related. I can't think of anything I've done that might have
caused such a problem, but the power to mess things up on the machine
in question is something I share with others.
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John C. Hasley
University Computer Services INTERNET: hasley@bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University UUCP: ...andy.bgsu.edu!hasley
Bowling Green, Ohio Ma Bell: (419) 372-9989
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