Re: SFF problem with VSI on Integrity?

On 8/7/24 6:59 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

On 8/6/24 2:49 PM, Richard Jordan wrote:

I have contacted VSI but thought I'd ask here too.  If anyone can give this a try and let me know if they experience the problem I'd appreciate knowing.
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Integrity server, VMS V8.4-2L1, TCPIP V5.7 eco 5 with any later hotfixes as of June 2023 applied.
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V8.4-2L3 is coming but I can't install it to check for a while.
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We use the 'sendmail.com' freeware to send email with binary attachments (mostly PDFs) with customized SMTP headers.  On this VSI system we get a single error every time we run SFF from the command procedure.
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Exact same procedure on a V8.3 Alpha and an HP V8.4 Integrity run without error so we're tentatively calling it a VSI issue.
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Every run using symbol form via
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      sff :== $SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE
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(as defined within sendmail.com)
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generates the following error, but also still creates the email successfully:
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      %LIB-F-INVNBDS, invalid numeric byte data string
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Happens with any normal or priv'd account, regardless of the body text file, presence or absence of attachments, who the recipient is, presence or absence of a subject line.
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I don't have any other systems to test on (specifically no other VSI systems).
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Thanks for any info.

 Do you get anything interesting from:
 $ MCR TCPIP$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE sys$input: -log sys$error: -loglevel 1
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^Z
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Yes and no.  Thanks for reminding that many of these utilities have those options!  I had forgotten; I rarely get to be in VMS anymore.
I ran it with one of the temp files sendmail.com created, and with the -log and -loglevel options, as well as with SYS$INPUT.
The one run with the sendmail temp file for input placed the %LIB-F-INVNBDS error as the first line in the error log, then a blank line, then SMTP configuration data, then the expected text from the input file appropriately escaped (munged).
The run with SYS$INPUT did the same.  If I just hit return, SFF exits with an error and the error log shows the %LIB-F-INVNBDS error at the top.  If I enter a valid SMTP command (MAIL FROM:) then ctrl-z errorlog shows the same; the LIB error, followed by a blank line, the contents of the SMTP config file, my one line and an end of input file notice.  And same if I hit ctrl-z immediately after running SFF, I get the LIB error, a blank line, then the SMTP config dump.
So the error is occurring 'early' and the cause is not logged.  Feels like a bug in the program.  Despite the fact that its listed as a 'fatal' error, the exit status from SFF on all of these tests was the same:
%0x00000001