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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sendmail and NetBSD-0.9 Date: 27 Aug 1993 16:39:33 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 19 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug27123933@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <22688@durer.cme.nist.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov's message of 27 Aug 93 13:21:34 GMT In article <22688@durer.cme.nist.gov> schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman) writes: Has anyone seen this error before from sendmail on NetBSD-0.9? It looks like sendmail is forking mail with a -r option which is illegal.... | ----- Transcript of session follows ----- | mail: illegal option -- r | Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... | [- sendmail-options ...] | mail [-iInNv] -f [name] | mail [-iInNv] [-u user] | 554 root... unknown mailer error 1 This indicates you've configured it incorrectly. The local mail deliverly program under NetBSD is `/usr/libexec/mail.local'.