Re: magicfilter install problems
Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for the response. I use sendmail to deliver mail. It doesn't
have a problem delivering mail to root. Someone else responded to me
directly with a link to a bug report that describes the same problem. I
looked at it briefly and it looks like it will solve my problem.
Thanks, though.
Here's the URL if anyone is interested:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=83561&repeatmerged=yes
> 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
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Brian J. Stults
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Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
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