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From: mwp@ubeaut.oz.au (Michael Paddon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problem with decnet mail on ultrix
Message-ID: <272@ubeaut.oz.au>
Date: 7 Jan 91 00:54:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.213226.5614@news.miami.edu>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Jan4.213226.5614@news.miami.edu>, grant@oj.rsmas.miami.edu
(Grant Basham) writes:
> I have two nodes running ultrix 4.0, a 3200 and a 5000.  The 3200
> receives decnet mail from a vms site.  The other node, oj, the 5000,
> fails vms mail:
>   $ mail nla0: oj::grant
>   %MAIL-E-LOGLINK, error creating network link to node OJ
>   -SYSTEM-F-LINKEXIT, network partner exited
> 
> Decnet mail from an ultrix site just hangs forever in que with:
>    (Deferred: Remote MAIL object at oj not responding)

I had exactly this problem over the last few days. The problem, in my
case, were the permissions on /usr/tmp not being 777.

[This happened after I newfs'd a new partition and mounted it as /usr/tmp
and forgot to do the appropriate chmod.]

					Michael

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