[1296] in NetBSD-Development
netbsd olcr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sat Apr 20 12:42:36 1996
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 12:41:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU, consultdev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
So, whenever you send a mail message from within netbsd [e]olcr, it
says:
Sat 20-Apr-96 12:02pm sendmail: exec: No such file or directory
Mail message sent.
This seemed weird, but I figured that the emacs19 version was slightly
beta, and I didn't know that it didn't say this on any other platform,
and after all, it does say ``message sent'', right?
Wrong. It actually just bitbuckets it. Given 20/20 hindsight, this is
reasonably visible in the logs of some of the questions I've answered.
Anyway, Greg Hudson has tracked down that this is a problem in netbsd
olcr, that it tries to run `/usr/lib/sendmail', which doesn't exist,
and then olcr never checks the return status, so it cheerily prints
``message sent''. He's planning to fix it soon.
I'm cc:ing this to cfyi in case this affects anyone else, although I
imagine if it affected too many people, someone else would have
noticed by now. :-}
-- Dan
