sendmail: mailer local died with signal 13

[Technische Universitaet]

HP-UX 10.20
sendmail 8.9.3

Suddenly (don't know what might have been changed) sendmail fails delivering mails to local users with the error message in the subject line.

As I have learned from the forum, there seems to be some problem with access permissions. But which file(s)?

I have checked those I could imagine (/etc/mail/sendmail.cf, /var/mail/*, /etc/passwd, /etc/inetd.conf, /var/adm/inetd.sec). Everything looks quite "normal".

Any ideas, what else I should check?

Thanks in advance!

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Signal 13 is a SIGPIPE.


Thus you have a kernel problem

Try increasing maxssiz in your kernel


Steve Steel

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

What is your local mailer
(Mlocal line in sendmail.cf).

rgds, Robin

[Technische Universitaet]

Mlocal is:
P=/usr/bin/rmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qm9, S=10/30, R=20/40,

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

you have a comma at the end of the line, so there must be one or two continuation lines for this mailer.

Assuming root resolves locally, what happens with:

echo test | /usr/lib/sendmail -v root

rgds, Robin.

[Technische Universitaet]

echo test | /usr/lib/sendmail -v root gives:
root... Connecting to local...
mailer local died with signal 13
root... Deferred

complete Mlocal lines (sorry):
P=/usr/bin/rmail,
F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qm9, S=10/30,
R=20/40, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=rmail -d $u

Concerning maxssize:
Current value ist 79*1024*1024. Isn't that enough?

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

So:

echo test | /usr/bin/rmail -d root

gives you the same error?

rgds, Robin

[Technische Universitaet]

Good news: Problem solved.

Magically, the rmail executable seems to have been corrupted: Calling rmail directly gave a "Segmentation violation" error.
I copied rmail back from one of our other boxes and everything is ok again. (Strange though: cksum is identical for both rmail files).

Thanks to all for your suggestions.