Claude.P.Cantin@NRC.CA (07/10/90)
I opened a call with the SGI hotline on June 22 and they have yet to find an explanation, so I thought I'd try here: We have three servers (240, 260, 280) configured to use the BSD mail interface (mail is aliased to Mail). We changed to BSD mail because it is much more flexible that System V's, and it corrected some errors we had with System V's mail interface... When we try to read some mail (using /usr/sbin/Mail), we sometimes (depending who sends it to us, in what format, etc) get an Unmatched ". error and we can't see the message at all!!!! But we can read it using /bin/mail fine!!! Has this happened to anyone??? What follows is a short session demonstrating the problem... Any suggestions???? Thanks for your help, Claude Cantin (CANTIN@NRCVM01.BITNET) (CANTIN@VM.NRC.CA) (cantin@nrccsb3.di.nrc.ca) (and many more...) ##### here is the sample session ###### 50 bsa,root> batch ls -C warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 647555625.b at Mon Jul 9 16:33:45 1990 51 bsa,root> alias ls ls -C mail Mail 52 bsa,root> mail Mail version 5.2 6/21/85. Type ? for help. "/usr/mail/root": 1 message 1 new >N 1 root@nrcbsa.bio.nr Mon Jul 9 16:33 15/540 & p Message 1: From root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Mon Jul 9 16:33:51 1990 bin etc lost+found tmp unix.old debug kayden mail tt usr dev lib stand unix usr2 ************************************************* Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error of one of your cron commands. & d & q 53 bsa,root> batch ls warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 647555644.b at Mon Jul 9 16:34:04 1990 54 bsa,root> mail Mail version 5.2 6/21/85. Type ? for help. "/usr/mail/root": 1 message 1 new >N 1 root@nrcbsa.bio.nr Mon Jul 9 16:34 27/459 & p Unmatched ". <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< LOOK HERE <<< & q Saved 1 message in mbox 55 bsa,root> more mbox From root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Mon Jul 9 16:34:07 1990 Message-Id: <9007092034.AA02295@ nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 90 16:34:07 EDT From: Super-User <root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> Apparently-To: root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Status: RO bin debug dev etc kayden lib lost+found mail stand tmp tt unix unix.old usr usr2 ************************************************* Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error of one of your cron commands. 56 bsa,root> /bin/mail No mail. 57 bsa,root> /bin/mail -f mbox From root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Mon Jul 9 16:34:07 1990 Message-Id: <9007092034.AA02295@ nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 90 16:34:07 EDT From: Super-User <root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca> Apparently-To: root@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca Status: RO bin debug dev etc kayden lib lost+found mail stand tmp tt unix unix.old usr usr2 ************************************************* Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error of one of your cron commands. ? q 58 bsa,root>