From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail -v -q problem (AIX 4.2.x)
Date: 17 May 1998 19:20:49 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Message-ID: <6jndah$9bq$1@news.du.etx.ericsson.se>
References: <6jl1jj$huj$1@orthanc.reference.com>

In article <6jl1jj$huj$1@orthanc.reference.com>
rmenon@NoSPAM-1518.mtel.com writes:
>Has anybody experienced problems with running "sendmail -v -q"
>and receiving a "Memory fault(coredump)" message? We are running
>sendmail-8.8.8 on a(n) IBM RS/6000 (AIX 4.2.x).

Yes, I believe everyone trying to use -q with that version on that
platform has. The patch below has been posted here many times, but you
migt be better off going for 8.9.0, currently in late beta, expected to
be released Real Soon Now(tm).

--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se

*** dist/src/main.c	Mon Oct 20 12:18:51 1997
--- sendmail/src/main.c	Thu Nov  6 11:57:56 1997
***************
*** 250,255 ****
--- 250,258 ----
  	setsignal(SIGUSR1, sigusr1);
  #endif
  
+ 	/* initialize for setproctitle */
+ 	initsetproctitle(argc, argv, envp);
+ 
  	/* Handle any non-getoptable constructions. */
  	obsolete(argv);
  
***************
*** 401,409 ****
  
  	InChannel = stdin;
  	OutChannel = stdout;
- 
- 	/* initialize for setproctitle */
- 	initsetproctitle(argc, argv, envp);
  
  	/* clear sendmail's environment */
  	ExternalEnviron = environ;
--- 404,409 ----