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Article #92Re: Mail loses messages
From: P. Glassenbury
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 22:59
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 22:59
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In article <618@ccssrv.UUCP>, perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes: > Situation: login, shell reports "you have mail." Read mail (using > /usr/ucb/mail), enter "q". The disk containing the mbox is full. See > messages from kernel (write failed, file system is full). > This happened on SunOS 3.5 (derived from 4.2BSD). ^^^^ Similar thing happened under SunOS4.0.1 -- saved mail to the mbox, file system full, and the mbox was TRUNCATED TO ZERO - Thank goodness for backups (I might have been reading from the mbox) Peter Glassenbury Computer Science Dept. pete@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz University of Canterbury, NZ
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cantuar!pete From: pete@cantuar.UUCP (P. Glassenbury) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Mail loses messages Summary: Also loses messages in SunOS4.0 Message-ID: <1328@cantuar.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 89 22:59:00 GMT References: <618@ccssrv.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 12