From: ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) Subject: Re: smail 3.1.28 problems Date: 17 Mar 1993 03:25:16 GMT
mbastian@speech.iar.nrc.ca (Matthew Bastian) writes:
>This morning I ftp the lastest smail binary release from sunsite and
>I am unable to send any mail via tcp/ip.
>I ran the mkconfig script in the tools.linux directory which set up
>the config file with a smart_path and smart_transport etc. However when I
>start up "smail -bd -q10m" it complains about uuname being directory!? I
>get similar results when mailing.
It sounds like you don't have uucp on your system. Try making a script
called /usr/lib/uucp/uuname which is just an empty shell script file. (Make
sure it's executable.) That way smail will just assume you have no uucp
neighbors, which is probably correct in your case. If that doesn't do all the
trick, make /usr/lib/uucp/Systems another empty file.
Smail only tried to use UUCP because ALL the directors, routers, and transports
are compiled in and most of them are used in the default mail router config-
uration. That includes UUCP. It must at least be able to tell that you have
no uucp neighbors to route mail to.
I'll see if I can add anything to check for this into future binary releases
of smail for Linux.