From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 8 14:48:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27009 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26919 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA04635; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:47:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:47:52 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-BETA bugs (multiple in installation and config) References: <199810082138.OAA19992@george.lbl.gov> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 Oct 1998 23:47:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jin Guojun's message of "Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:38:58 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA26957 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jin Guojun (FTG staff) writes: > So, problem is that the installation does not install /etc/aliases.db > in the first place. It normally does, but as you pointed out it segfaulted before completion. > The second is that send-pr should not spit out such > wrong message to confuse people. > > If send-pr can send without /etc/aliases.db, then eliminate such error > report, just say: "/etc/aliases.db does not exit, but report is sent anyway." send-pr(1) doesn't know what happened. The error message you got was from sendmail(8), which send-pr(1) invoked to mail the problem report. Arguably, sendmail(8) shouldn't have returned a non-zero exit status since it succeeded in sending the problem report. This is a whole other kettle of fish and I'd hesitate to do anything about it as a lot of software depends on assumptions about how sendmail(8) behaves when/if an error occurs, which fixing this apparent bug might actually break. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message