tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu (Thomas D. Davis) (11/06/90)
Twice now I've had my inbox truncated by ELM. From what I can tell, it seems to happen when I've asked ELM to Quit and then exited SunView. My guess is that SunView sends a kill signal to ELM during its Quit processing and the folder update is aborted, causing the trancation error I've seen. Assuming my theory is correct, shouldn't ELM trap signals while Quitting? -- Tom Davis | The above statement shall be construed, Network Software Services | interpreted, and governed by me alone. Michigan State University | EMail: tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu
pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Tatjana Heuser) (11/08/90)
tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu (Thomas D. Davis) writes: >Twice now I've had my inbox truncated by ELM. [..] Hmmm, happend to me once. I rebuild elm 2.3 on pl.6, still having an incarnation of pl5 running :-) guess what happened.... right. That Sparc I was sitting on meanwhile had swapped my old elm out. When I returned to the window and terminated elm using "q" obviously it had to be swapped in... As the binaries didn't quite match now it exitet with a big bang taking my mail folder with it :-( Now I look for what I'm compiliing :-) So, the cases are rather different, but of the users I know to use sunview & elm nobody ever seemed to have your problems. I didn't try it yet, but sure you can find out whether elm truncates your mailbox on certain signls. Just build a sample folder to thrash run elm and send it the signals you think to be at fault. If then your folder is still intact it rather wasn't elm. -ciaoens, Tatjana -- Pierrot le fou | UUCP: pierrot@tubopal.UUCP (pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) Tatjana Heuser | ...!unido!tub!opal!pierrot (Europe) D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!tub!opal!pierrot (World) Ettaler Str.2 | BITNET: pierrot%tubopal@DB0TUI11.BITNET (saves $$$)