my original question:
>Lately I've been seeing a problem with sending mail off-site: if the
>connection times out three times, the control file disappears from
>/var/spool/mqueue, and the text is left behind. this happens on the
>mail server, which is a Sun 3/280 running 4.0.3. I mount that machine's
>/var/spool/mail on my clients, and I also mount its /var/spool/mqueue.
No one seems to have seen this problem. Several people wrote to suggest
that I not mount /var/spool/mqueue, and one wrote to say that he does
the same thing without any difficulty. in attempting to track the
problem down, I found that I had sendmail running as a daemon on two
machines, which I suspect is a mistake.
At any rate, I found out how to fix the original problem that caused
me to mount /var/spool/mqueue on all my clients, so hopefully I won't
see this again.
thanks to the following people for their assistance:
miker@sbcoc.com
dmorse@sun-valley.stanford.edu (Dennis Morse)
fabrice@sj.ATE.SLB.COM
Bernards@ECN.NL (Marcel Bernards)
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd)
-- Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 660-5111 or 660-5100
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