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Sendmail problem of "unknown mailer error"

Setting up a second system to be an exact copy of an existing one. Both are older Sun Sparc systems running 5.6. Sendmail on the original works fine. However, on new system I get

Feb 1 11:13:14 maryjane sendmail[12171]: LAA12171: from=<infocare@silverbacktech.com>, size=2751, class=0, pri=32751, nrcpts=1, msgid=<14413511.1201882613312.JavaMail.SYSTEM@megacpe2k4>, proto=ESMTP, relay=thunderbird.silverbacktech.com [38.151.210.50]
Feb 1 11:13:14 maryjane sendmail[12172]: LAA12171: to=|/usr/local/armaild/scripts/ARSmegaAlerts.pl, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=unknown mailer error 1

Sendmail.cf has following in header for version ID

##### @(#)cfhead.m4 8.23 (Berkeley) 10/6/1998 #####
##### @(#)cf.m4 8.29 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998 #####
##### @(#)generic-solaris2.mc 8.8 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998 #####
##### @(#)solaris2.m4 8.16 (Berkeley) 10/6/1998 #####

Have not found any differences (protections, etc) so far between system, but still looking.

Any ideas appreciated.

sentner

you're trying to pipe the ARSmegaAlerts.pl output to the "to" address? Is this going to a .forward file that's forwarding to the script? Check the script. It may be set as non-executable.

rcyoung

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No luck there I fear

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 7084 Oct 1 2003 ARSmegaAlerts.pl

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rcyoung

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Good thought. I also found what may be a glitch in another program that "preps" a file used by this script....may be related to the prob

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sentner

What was the final solution to this? You've asked to have the points assigned back to your account, though you never asked anything beyond your comment above:
"Good thought. I also found what may be a glitch in another program that "preps" a file used by this script....may be related to the prob"

Did you find that it was not related to the script or perl as I suggested? Did manually running it not yield some clues?

Sendmail problem of &quot;unknown mailer error&quot;

Sendmail problem of "unknown mailer error"