At 07:45 PM 1/16/97 -0500, Stan Ryckman wrote: >At 11:35 AM 1/16/97 -0800, Eric Paul-Hus wrote: >>I have one user that have this error several times a day: >>> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >>> "|/usr/local/bin/procmail #user" (expanded from: <[log in to unmask]>) >>> >>> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >>> Memory fault - core dumped >>> 554 "|/usr/local/bin/procmail #user"... unknown mailer error 139 >This user is apparently using procmail. I use it, and am on its >mailing list, so I'll try and help with what I can here. >The stuff between double quotes "" is undoubtedly an entry in the user's >.forward file. Procmail instructions say that it should contain: > |IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME actually, the contents of the .forward file are system-dependant. i use procmail on solaris with a locally-hacked tcsh and my .forward looks just like the one which is causing the error. >Some more credible things to check: > - is procmail actually in /usr/local/bin and world-executable? > - does sendmail allow users to run programs? Is smrsh involved? > - there are other possible permissions issues as well. good ideas, but i got the feeling from eric's original note that this problem, while occuring "several times a day", doesn't happen *every time* a message is delivered. if this presumption is correct, then that argues against a procmail configuration problem and points to some sort of other sporadic weirdness. -- _O_ rob woiccak |< [log in to unmask]