Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!shawn From: shawn@ (Shawn Koppenhoefer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: nfs mounted /var/spool/mail causing problems Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 12:22:34 GMT Sender: news@disuns2.epfl.ch Reply-To: shawn@litsun.epfl.ch Distribution: comp Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: litsun.epfl.ch I have a sparc470 running sunOS 4.1.1 that I just installed. It is giving me difficulties with /var/spool/mail (I think). I have *one* account (*my* users account) which can user "mail" properly to read incoming mail. That is... I can type "mail" and if I have mail, am able to read it. All other accounts have a problem. When another user types "mail" to read his/her mail, it takes a very long time for the list of mail to show up like: mail Mail version SMI 4.0 Thu Oct 11 12:59:09 PDT 1990 Type ? for help. "/usr/spool/mail/messina": 70 messages 2 unread 68 barbero@di.unito.it Tue May 28 10:29 42/1910 >U 69 buclin Tue May 28 14:07 12/313 U 70 buclin Tue May 28 14:07 12/313 & and then upon typing a number like "68" or "69" it bombs out. &69 69: Command not found. what should I be checking so that I can solve this problem?! My users are "mail-frustrated!!!" /frustrated [ -- _____________________________________________________________________________ | shawn@litsun.epfl.ch -.- KLEIN BOTTLE FOR SALE ... \####### | Shawn Edwin Koppenhoefer \_/ ... enquire within \###### | Sun System-Manager, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) \##### | EL-Ecublens, CH 1015 Lausanne SWITZERLAND (021)6934703 telefax=474660 \#### | from Canada dial: 011-41-21-693-4703 __________________________________|### |_____________________________________/