/bin/mail,rmail

[Kent Sandvik]

In article <1991Mar22.171643.443 at skbat.csc.ti.com> dittman at skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
>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?


simstim.root # ls -li mail rmail
   704 -rwxr-sr-x   2 bin      mail       67148 Jan 13 03:52 mail
   704 -rwxr-sr-x   2 bin      mail       67148 Jan 13 03:52 rmail

rmail is usually linked to mail. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, it's so
long since I last ported usenet or uucp src code, but rmail is usually called
as part of the uucp transmission phase between links (uux as the last 
job after the uucp files are sent over, rmail is only able to *send* mail).

Regards,
Kent Sandvik

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