uucp core dump
Steve Lemke
steve at cpdaux.UUCP
Sun Oct 8 04:12:25 AEST 1989
In article <4580 at internal.Apple.COM> dales at Apple.COM (Dale Satterfield) writes:
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}I have been trying to get mail using a Mac II with 8 Megs running 1.1. UUCP
}starts copying files, but after tha last one it core dumps. Also, If I do a
}"ls -l" while my modem is transfering data, I can see that the files from
}my feed are about 500K to 600k each. As soon as the file has completely
}transfered it disappears. I cannot find it anywhere. Has anyone seen this
}problem?
Ahhh. Finally someone else has found a problem similar to one that I was
fighting for quite some time. Actually my problem was two-fold. The uucp
transfers worked just fine. However, when they finished and the system
called uuxqt, mail would be rejected and returned (actually just the header,
so even if I looked at the pending reject message the text was already gone)
and each news batch would just be deleted, one after the other.
I finally linked this problem (in part, anyway) to the fact that I was
running uucico from cron (since I poll apple.com). Now I run uucico by
hand, whenever it seems appropriate. I'm running aux part-time, with a
partial feed, so it's not a big deal. Also, I've renamed uuxqt to uuxqt.
(note the period at the end) so that it wouldn't run automatically after
uucico.
Alas, it's been a while (since July) since I've had these problems and
found the (at the time) short-term fix, which has turned into more of a
permanent solution. For now I just live with it, since I'm going to be
bringing up a NeXT machine at work for news and mail at which point I'm
probably going to stop running aux part time. It's better to run aux
full-time than to switch back and forth (I'm forever discovering that I'm
in the "wrong" OS to do whatever I need to do), so I'm probably just going
to stop it altogether.
I also had another problem with rmail constantly re-mailing all incoming
mail so that it would show up as "from root" instead of who it was really
from. Stacey at apple suggested that I get the rmail program from aux 1.0,
but before that happened a friend of mine wrote a short "c" program to
substitute for rmail, which has worked fine to this day.
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