[8310] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mail lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andy cassidy)
Wed Oct 2 14:01:08 1991
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: honor@Athena.MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, basch@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 02 Oct 91 07:57:04 -0400.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 91 14:01:21 EDT
From: andy cassidy <honor@Athena.MIT.EDU>
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--> 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
I can't remember for sure, but I was probably using mh-rmail from
Emacs(if not, then just mhmail from an xterm--inc,scan,show,etc...).
I assumed it was a temporary directory, but it could've been the root
directory. I was allowed to do an xlogin that time (I don't know why I
could that time and not the others).
andy
