I'm running:
# ./deliver -m user.elirov
Segmentation fault
# echo $?
139
I tried the same thing with tcsh and sh. Same results.
ksh outputs: "Memory fault", but still echoes 139 for $?.
Am I looking for the error code in the wrong variable?
Erez
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Greenfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:33 PM
> To: Erez Lirov
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LMTP problem
>
>
> From: "Erez Lirov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:21:55 -0500
>
> The exit status is zero.
> It looks like 'deliver' really believes that it's inserting
> the message into
> the folder.
>
> If I run deliver -m user.test, then it lets me type into
> stdin, and when I
> hit Ctrl-D, it promptly quits and leaves an exit status of 0.
>
> Try "deliver test" and "deliver test2", though "deliver -m user.test"
> should be mostly equivalent.
>
> If I run deliver -m user.test2 (a non-existent user), then it
> doesn't wait
> for stdin, but simply dies. The strange thing is that the exit code is
> still 0.
>
> The strangest thing is that if I run deliver -m user.elirov, it gives a
> segmentation fault and returns an exit code of 139.
>
> How can it segfault and return an exit code?
> Could you strace/truss it and send those results?
>
> Larry
>
> There is nothing special about user.elirov. It doesn't happen on
> user.elirov2, but it does happen on user.oawuhf. (just a
> random string I
> happend to type in... user.oawuhfe doesn't dump core)
>
> ???
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lawrence Greenfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:05 PM
> > To: Erez Lirov
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: LMTP problem
> >
> >
> > From: "Erez Lirov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:31:33 -0500
> >
> > I see. Does the deliver program form RFC822 content from a
> > plain text file?
> > As in:
> > deliver -m user.test < mymessage.txt
> >
> > When I try this, it doesn't give me any errors, but it doesn't
> > put anything
> > in the user.test mailbox.
> >
> > When you say no errors, are you including the exit code? The
> > important error that deliver gives is the exit code --- 0 is success,
> > and all others are a la /usr/include/sysexits.h.
> >
> > That's the only important measure of whether deliver thinks it's
> > succeeding or failing.
> >
> > Larry
> >
>
>
