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From: dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: /bin/mail,rmail
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.171643.443@skbat.csc.ti.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 23:16:43 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility
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Two days ago my A/UX 2.0 systems locked up and had to be reset.  The
fs check failed and told me to run fsck manually, which I did.  fsck
had problems with /bin/mail and /bin/rmail and wanted to delete them,
so I did.  After fsck finished I was able to boot A/UX.  I mounted
the CD-ROM distribution on /mnt and copied /mnt/bin/*mail to /bin and
then did a chmod/chgrp/chown so the copies in /bin matched the copies
in /mnt/bin.  I then called my mail feed and a file was sent to me,
but when I checked the mail I was told there was none, even though
the appropriate file was in /usr/mail.  I took a look at the file
and found it was an extract of some source written in 68K assembler,
so I figured something was wrong.  I rechecked /mnt/bin and noticed
there were 2 links to mail and rmail (from the count given by ls),
but I don't know where the links are.  What links are missing?

Thanks.
-- 
Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com
dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com

Disclaimer:  I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test
             Facility.  I don't even speak for myself.