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Re: mail error (woody)



On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> Since yesterday's woody update, everytime I send mail, I get the error
> message:
>
> Error sending message, child exited 71 (Operating system error.).

Not issued by sendmail or sensible-mda. Are you having other problems?
Have you rebooted since you started getting the message?

> The message gets sent, but mutt doesn't know this, so the screen isn't
> cleared automatically.
>
> This happens both with mutt and balsa, so I doubt it is caused by
> either of them.  I re-installed sendmail with no effect.  Any ideas?

Sendmail hasn't changed in woody, so I doubt it is (directly) the
problem...  I've not updated woody in a while, and I see a new
libc6, and more problematic, a new libdb2 *and* db3.  But the fact that
the message gets sent make me think something else is amiss...

Try using the mailx package command `mail` to send a mail and see if
the problem also occurs there - if so send me the log showing the error

-- 
Rick Nelson
We come to bury DOS, not to praise it.
(Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu, paraphrasing a quote of Shakespeare)



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