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From: henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: [Another?] Big, nasty bug in A/UX rmail and/or uuxqt
Summary: rmail to user fails!
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.164126.3540@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:41:26 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.124446.7350@panix.uucp> <1990Dec10.115338.3828@panix.uucp>
Sender: henry@chinet.chi.il.us
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Dec10.115338.3828@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>
>It seems I was right in my guess that they were running out of file
>descriptors. Changing the appropriate kernel parameters fixed things.
>

I'm getting a different problem with uucp.  Simply put, rmail to a
valid user fails.  The relevant section of the LGOFILE is:

chinet!uucp (12/11-9:55:53) (C,313,0) OK (DIRECT tty1 0)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:00) (C,313,0) SUCCEEDED (call to chinet )
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:10) (C,313,0) OK (startup)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:12) (C,313,0) REQUESTED (S D.chineb13c106 D.chineb13c106
 uucp)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:18) (C,313,1) REQUESTED (S D.yorub4c04106 X.yorubaN4c04
uucp)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:22) (C,313,2) OK (conversation complete  tty1 89)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:23) (Q,319,0) uucp XQT (rmail henry )
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:24) (Q,319,0) ret (1000) from chinet!uucp (MAIL FAIL)
chinet!uucp (12/11-9:57:27) (X,328,0) XQT QUE'D (rmail uucp )

and the returned message is:

From uucp  Tue Dec 11 09:57:25 1990 remote from yoruba
Received: by yoruba (5.61/SMI-3.2)
        id AA00325; Tue, 11 Dec 90 09:57:25 CST
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 09:57:25 CST
From: yoruba!uucp (UUCP admin)
Message-Id: <9012111557.AA00325@yoruba>
To: chinet!uucp

Mail failed (PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=`/bin/cat rmail
henry ).  Letter
 returned to sender.


The main problem with this is that it is not consistant.  Most times
mail works fine, but once in a while it barfs!

Can anyone help??
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