Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!bridge2!api!gpz From: gpz@ESD.3Com.COM (G. Paul Ziemba) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Intermittent .forward problem Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 20:56:34 GMT References: <9012@ur-cc.UUCP> <9015@ur-cc.UUCP> <9023@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Aug23.135914@uwm.edu> Sender: news@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM Lines: 23 In article <9023@ur-cc.UUCP>, msir@sulu.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes: > In article <9012@ur-cc.UUCP> I write: > > Sometimes, and I do mean sometimes, our sendmail seems to be ignoring > > .forward files, and delivering locally instead. > > I really appreciate all the mail I'm getting regarding this problem. It's > unfortunate that almost everyone is answering a question that I didn't ask. > Let me try to rephrase it. I haven't seen this suggestion so far, so here goes... (if it's been suggested before, well, I'm wearing my asbestos suit :-) Have you checked the /etc/fstab entry(ies) to make sure that the .forward files are mounted hard? If they are mounted soft, it is possible for nfs to time out under heavy network traffic conditions and give up, resulting in a temporarily inaccessible file. ~!paul -- Paul Ziemba api!gpz gpz@ESD.3com.com 408.970.2077 OS/2: just say no. "How much char could a char star star if char star could star char?" (quote stolen from mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu)