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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.smail
Subject: Re: smailbombs
Date: 1 Mar 96 19:41:03 GMT
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>Troy Ihmels (troy@awinc.com) wrote:
>[0]not sure if this is smail or FreeBSD related... Running FreeBSD port of
>[0]smail 3.1.29.1. Every few minutes the following happens:-
>[0]
>[0](from syslog) mail /kernel: pid 8769: smail: uid 19218: exited on signal 11
>[0]
>[0]obviously this generates a core file in the process.
I've had a similar problem with smail 3.1.29 when i compiled it from the
original sources. There is a bug in fwdfile.c which caused the same symptoms
under certain circumstances.
This was fixed with the help of the smail maintainer (i think it's PR 83 in
the smail PR database).
hellmuth
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