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Re: magicfilter install problems



Do you have exim configured to deliver local mail?
Do you have non root account?

Exim refuse to deliver to root so you need to have
/etc/aliases redirecting root mail to user account.
Good luck.

Osamu

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For at least a few weeks, I have been attempting to install an updated
> magicfilter deb (using unstable).  When I do, it unpacks fine, but then
> something strange happens.  It starts running lots and lots of instances
> of "send-mail".  In fact, it just keeps starting new processes until I
> am able to stop it.  A "ps" looks like this:
> 
> root      3323  send-mail -i root
> root      3326  send-mail -i root
> root      3329  send-mail -i root
> root      3332  send-mail -i root
> root      3335  send-mail -i root
> root      3338  send-mail -i root
> root      3341  send-mail -i root
> root      3344  send-mail -i root
> root      3347  send-mail -i root
> root      3350  send-mail -i root
> root      3353  send-mail -i root
> root      3357  send-mail -i root
> root      3360  send-mail -i root
> root      3363  send-mail -i root
> root      3366  send-mail -i root
> root      3369  send-mail -i root
> 
> And that's just a few of them.  Can anyone tell me why this might be
> happening, and what I might do to get magicfilter updated properly?  Is
> it actually sending mail as root?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> 
> Brian J. Stults
> Doctoral Candidate
> Department of Sociology
> University at Albany - SUNY
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