Re: building zmailer on Sun

[Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>]

> 
> I have been trying for a week now to get zmailer
> up and running on a Sun IPX SunOS 4.1.3
> 
> I am following the install instructions to the letter, but
> with no luck.
> 
> No errors in the compile. When I send a message to myself,
> the message appears in the postoffice/router directory and
> a record of the message appears in the log directory
> in the router file.
> 
> But the scheduler file says
> 	No 'mailq' tcp service defined!
> scheduler: exit(0): signal
> 
> I have the mailq 174/tcp entry in /etc/services and
> I set the mailq program to be setuid root.
> 
> I'm running Yellow Pages.

  Your  /etc/services is actually read from YP (er NIS) -map,
thus after you have changed it, you do need to do:
	(cd /var/yp; make)

> Should I keep trying?  Will this mailer work in such
> an environment?  I'm at my wits end and need to get
> a mailer up very soon.

  Yes, I do run it.

> Please help!
> 
> TIA
> Tim Arnold
> Internet: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu  North Carolina State Univ.

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>  Postmaster at univ. of Turku, Finland