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- From: pat@che.phys.Virginia.EDU
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: "error in device name" message on MX 3.1
- Message-ID: <00965cfc.5c2d8740.2806@gomez.phys.virginia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:22:24 EST
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- I've long been running MX 2.0 on a Vaxcluster, all seven of whose nodes are
- currently running VMS 5.5 and CMU-TEK version 6.6-5. I haven't upgraded MX
- for two reasons: 1) "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and 2) A couple of
- previous attempts to upgrade to 3.1 have been unsuccessful. However, a recent
- lack of success on my users' part in sending messages to the CERN particle
- accelerator site in Europe (addresses ending in .CH, e.g., joe@foo.bar.ch; the
- messages simply vanish and no bounced mail messages are received) is forcing
- me to confront this upgrade (to 3.1; unless somebody advises me otherwise,
- I'll get 3.1 working first and then worry about 3.1C or whatever is the
- current revision) and conquer it by any means necessary, in hopes that the
- newer version will have less trouble sending to CERN.
-
- Here's my problem: I've customized the 3.1 installation for our site (the
- ROUTER, LOCAL, and MLF processes all run on 3 of the 7 nodes; SMTP runs on
- these 3 plus one other node; and SMTP_SERVER runs on all 7 nodes). As best
- I can tell, I've modified it so it should be configured just as it has been
- to successfully run MX 2.0. I start up MX and all the appropriate processes
- start up, and will run until I stop them myself. However, as soon as I try
- to send an outgoing message, I receive the following error:
-
- MAIL> send
- To: mx%"user@site.edu" ! dummy user and site, of course
- %RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation
-
- I've checked all of the appropriate logicals I'm aware of (SHOW LOGICAL *MX*
- and SHOW LOGICAL *NETLIB*), and as best I can tell they're all defined
- properly; i.e., all logicals defined to point to directories or files do so
- successfully and MX_INET_HOST, MX_NODE_NAME, MX_SMTP_DEFAULT_ROUTER and
- MX_VMSMAIL_LOCALHOST all point to the correct machines. Does anybody have
- any idea what could be wrong here? Apologies if this is a beginner's question;
- I've recently taken over MX duties from the guru who set up 2.0 on this site
- and am still on the learning curve. Also, please let me know if I can supply
- additional useful information. Many thanks in advance.
-
- - Patrick Walsh
- University of Virginia Department of Physics
- pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
-