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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: When the disk runneth over, UUCP keeps on sending.
Message-ID: <5662@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 6 Mar 88 09:49:41 GMT
References: <1224@beowulf.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 14
Keywords: Help stop mail lossage.

In article <1224@beowulf.UUCP>, root@beowulf.UUCP (pilot and all 'round good guy) writes:
>	Help, when my /usr/spool drive fills up, uucp doesn't shut off.

There exists at least one uucico that doesn't have this problem.
Observe this excerpt from my LOGFILE when we were pushing out a
week's Usenet backlog:

news oxy (2/23-07:59-25505) REQUEST FAILED (remote system can't create temp file)
news oxy (2/23-07:59-25505) OK (conversation complete)

Checking further in the logfile, the failed request was indeed attempted
again later.  So even though we ran them out of disk repeatedly, they
never lost any mail.  Their machine is a Prime, running Primix + Primos.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {amdahl,ames!elroy}!cit-vax!speck