Mail loses messages
P. Glassenbury
pete at cantuar.UUCP
Fri Sep 15 08:59:00 AEST 1989
In article <618 at ccssrv.UUCP>, perry at 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 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz University of Canterbury, NZ
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