From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) Subject: Re: Mail -> Segmentation Fault (SLS) Date: 6 Dec 1992 04:29:23 GMT
In a previous article, andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) says:
>vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>
>>another underlying problem might be that you're using Ed's obsolete custom
>>mail program from mailpak1.3 (gone in the coming 1.4 according to him).
>>Grab smail3.1.28 from the newspak directory on sunsite. It works fine with
>>0.98-5.
>If you can't be bothered grabbing smail (so that's where it was !)
>you can just add "-fwritable-strings" to the CFLAGS def. in the Makefile for
>Ed's mail prgs, and they work fine...
>
>>(has anybody gotten uucp to work with a 0.98-5 kernel? I even get seg
>>faults when I rebuild Taylor UUCP 1.03 from sources).
>I snaffled the binaries out of the SLS dist - they're in a tar.Z of their own
>in one of the b directories...Saves recompiling, anyway.
Well.....for me and SLS 0.98.5, mail works great for root and reading mail
as other users, but when anyone but root attempts to send mail, i get this
same seg fault.
i just caught this thread...so if i've missed something, please fill me in.
thanx
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