Re: kernel or sendmail problems ?

Mike Pellatt (mike@ktgroup.co.uk)
21 Feb 1996 08:35:06 GMT

In article <v02140a07ad4f9ddf3508@[130.227.158.132]>, Povl H. Pedersen wrote:
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>I have some problems with my 90 user linux box.
>
>Once in a while peoples mailbox in /usr/spool/mails gets screwed up.
>It will then contain (512 or 1024?) '\0' in the beginning of the file,
>making it unuseable for my popper (the one from Qualcomm).
>
>Does anybody know if this is a kernel or a sendmail or a popper problem ?

Yep, got that too. I believe it's a mailbox locking problem. I've
just installed the latest beta Qualcomm popper, and am waiting to see
if the problem recurs. :-(

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