[5231] in SIPB bug reports
Re: pmail on lola-granola
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Mar 21 10:06:43 1995
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:04:30 -0500
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: jhawk@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[5228] in SIPB bug reports"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> So where's the corefile?
>
> pmail coredumps have people's mail in them, John. Don't expect that
> you'll always be able to get them (certainly not from me).
Depending on the situation, I would expect you could get around this.
For instance, was pmail segving before or after it read your mail from
pop? If before, you could certainly move your mbox file out of the way
temporarily. If after, you could incorporate mail on another machine
and then send yourself a test message and see if it repeats? Be
creative :-)
In any event, you could've gdb'd the core file and shown the stack
trace, unless you think that gives out too much private information?
> Does the problem repeat? Does it always happen?
>
> I assumed that the people working on pmail knew that I had used pmail
> successfully in the past, since I've told them that before, and since
> they've seen me do it. :-)
Well, that's not helpful. Were you able to repeat it once? Not at all???
For a period of an hour at which point it started working?
> Did you have pop-mail at the time?
>
> Certainly. Continually. :-)
So did the problem repeat after incorporating mail somewhere else?
> How far did it get?
>
> What metric would you use? I sent the input and the output.
I would try ktracing it, or using tcpdump.
> What does running tcpdump simultaneously show?
>
> Didn't try it, or I would have mentioned it.
Grumble grumble...
--jhawk
