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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:01:11 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        sue@zip.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail death note
Message-ID:  <19980328080111.52681@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980328005749.40823@zip.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 12:57:49AM %2B1000
References:  <19980328005749.40823@zip.com.au>

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On Sat, 28 March 1998 at  0:57:49 +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> Can anyone translate this for me?
>
> sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: died on signal 11
> /kernel: pid 18983 (sendmail), uid 0 exited on signal 11
>
> These two errror messges have been alternating for two hours.
> All I've figured out is "signal 11" means something awful is happening :-(
> There's a vaguely similar question in the archives but no answer.

Signal 11 is SIGSEGV.  In programming terms, it means that the program
has attempted to access memory which doesn't belong to it.

In the case of sendmail, I'd guess that there's something wrong with
the sendmail configuration.  Have you changed anything recently?

Greg

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