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- From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Prob. w/ outbound mail, inbound ok
- Message-ID: <C1FF9B.9F2@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:22:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.210346.3548@src.honeywell.com>
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- In article <1993Jan24.210346.3548@src.honeywell.com> bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:
- >
- >I'm having difficulty with sending mail and news from my home machine.
- >My news and mail feed is working perfectly; that is, I get anything
- >sent from the internet nodes I have accounts on, but I can't send
- >anything out. (It used to work, then I upgraded something - I don't
- >know what- and it broke).
- >
- >I've installed the latest SLS smail.tpz as well as a series of older
- >versions.
- >
- >The /usr/spool/smail/msglog entry for each failed mail try is like this:
- > Xdefer: <srcsip!bergstro> reason: (ERR_127) router uucp_neighbors:
- > command `/usr/bin/uuname` returned exit status EX_256
-
- Do you have a 'nobody' entry in /etc/passwd? I got this error until I
- finally read the smail sources or docs carefully enough.
-
- The entry should have username 'nobody', password '*' to disable logins, and an
- unpriviliged uid and gid. [Unless of course smail was compiled for a
- different username ... nobody is the default]
-
- --
- Steve Robbins -- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
- Too many causes -- too few Rebels.
-