[8305] in Athena Bugs
Mail lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Wed Oct 2 07:56:20 1991
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 07:57:04 -0400
To: honor@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, basch@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Not too long after that, I attempted to login on 'test-3100', and my
fileserver was down (If you haven't guessed already, it's aphrodite).
This time I was allowed to login with a temp directory though. However,
I incorporated mail, and lost it. I assumed (yeah, big mistake), that
inc would be using the notruncate option, but evidently it didn't.
I believe that the warning says MAY. Depending on exactly how you
incorporate your mail, we can sometimes preserve its integrity on the
Post Office servers. Using MH, it should have worked; using RMAIL, it
most likely will get deleted.
Can you elaborate on the exact mechanism that was used to incorporate
your mail? Was it in Emacs, was it rmail, mh-rmail, or "inc", or
something else entirely. I assume that none of your environment was
there, since you said your fileserver was down.
The last question is, was your directory a temporary directory, or were
you logged in with a home directory of "/"? There is a bug in the 7.3
xlogin, that is fixed in 7.3P, which might affect getting a temporary
directory?
Richard Basch
IS/DCNS Systems Development
