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From: THEP@gemini.ldc.lu.se ("THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS, LUND")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Deferred: Bad file number
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Date: 17 Aug 90 12:20:00 GMT
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What does the message 
"stat=Deferred: Bad file number" in the syslog file mean?
Sometimes my mail messages get stuck in the mail queue and this line appears
in /var/spool/mailq/syslog. Most of the times, the messge gets sent after a
few tries but sometimes it is stuck for several days (the record is a month, 
I think). Needless to say, this is *extremely* inconvenient...
Today, *all* my outgoing mail is stuck in this fashion. Is there
anything one can do about it? Our system is a bunch of DECstation 3100's
connected to a 3100 file server.


Magnus Olsson		     	| \e+ 	   /_	      
Dept. of Theoretical Physics 	|  \  Z	  / q	      
University of Lund, Sweden	|   >----<	      
Internet: magnus@thep.lu.se	|  /	  \===== g    
Bitnet: THEPMO@SELDC52 		| /e-	   \q	      

(I'm sending this from an account on another machine for the above reason)