The reason why I posted it here is because I tested the same version
of smail on another NetBSD-1.3.2 (i386) box and it works fine.  I was
wondering if there was something was wrong with my NetBSD...

Kevin

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, David Maxwell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:24:02 -0300
> From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
> To: Kevin Tsang <kevin@kevcom.on.ca>
> Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Error using smail on 1.3.3
> 
> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:50:56PM -0400, Kevin Tsang wrote:
> > I'm running smail-3.2.0.101 (and tried 106), but I cannot redirect
> > anything using a pipe.  The error follows.
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > |------------------------- Message log follows: -------------------------|
> >  Xfail: <"|/bin/cat>/dev/null"> parent: <<garbage@kevcom.on.ca>> reason: (ERR144) transport pipe: child returned status EX_OSFILE (72)
> > |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
> >  owner-garbage ... unknown user
> >  "|/bin/cat>/dev/null" ... transport pipe: child returned status EX_OSFILE (72)
> 
> I don't know this particular one, but the smail mailing list would
> probably net you an answer. Is it trying to run the /bin/cat command
> as a user 'owner-garbage' that doesn't exist?
> 
> -- 
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
> mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
> but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
> in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville 
>