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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: inc loses mail when file system full
Keywords: inc, write failed, file system full
Message-ID: <14472@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 15:32:35 GMT
References: <1875@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
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In article <1875@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) writes:
>The first time this happened, I was completely aghast when inc said:
> ...
>After a few other commands, I finally got a `write failed: file system full'.
> ...
>Before I go mucking around in the code (MH6.6), I wonder if anyone has already
>fixed this.
>
>        Steve Dempsey,  Center for Computer Assisted Engineering

This was a problem back in  mh 6.3, but inc did indeed warn me and did not
zero out my mail drop when the file system was full under mh 6.6.  I am
running under SunOS 3.2 and 4.0 with the folowing mh config file.

bin	/usr/local/public/bin/mh
debug	off
bboards	off
etc	/usr/local/public/lib/mh
mail	/usr/spool/mail
mandir	/usr/local/public/man
manuals	local
mts	sendmail/smtp
pop	off
options BSD42
options MHE NETWORK
options BERK MHRC WHATNOW OVERHEAD
options BIND RPATHS
ldoptions -O
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