dales@Apple.COM (Dale Satterfield) (10/07/89)
I have been trying to get mail using a Mac II with 8 Megs running 1.1. UUCP starts copying files, but after tha last one it core dumps. Also, If I do a "ls -l" while my modem is transfering data, I can see that the files from my feed are about 500K to 600k each. As soon as the file has completely transfered it disappears. I cannot find it anywhere. Has anyone seen this problem? Thanks.
steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke) (10/08/89)
In article <4580@internal.Apple.COM> dales@Apple.COM (Dale Satterfield) writes: } }I have been trying to get mail using a Mac II with 8 Megs running 1.1. UUCP }starts copying files, but after tha last one it core dumps. Also, If I do a }"ls -l" while my modem is transfering data, I can see that the files from }my feed are about 500K to 600k each. As soon as the file has completely }transfered it disappears. I cannot find it anywhere. Has anyone seen this }problem? Ahhh. Finally someone else has found a problem similar to one that I was fighting for quite some time. Actually my problem was two-fold. The uucp transfers worked just fine. However, when they finished and the system called uuxqt, mail would be rejected and returned (actually just the header, so even if I looked at the pending reject message the text was already gone) and each news batch would just be deleted, one after the other. I finally linked this problem (in part, anyway) to the fact that I was running uucico from cron (since I poll apple.com). Now I run uucico by hand, whenever it seems appropriate. I'm running aux part-time, with a partial feed, so it's not a big deal. Also, I've renamed uuxqt to uuxqt. (note the period at the end) so that it wouldn't run automatically after uucico. Alas, it's been a while (since July) since I've had these problems and found the (at the time) short-term fix, which has turned into more of a permanent solution. For now I just live with it, since I'm going to be bringing up a NeXT machine at work for news and mail at which point I'm probably going to stop running aux part time. It's better to run aux full-time than to switch back and forth (I'm forever discovering that I'm in the "wrong" OS to do whatever I need to do), so I'm probably just going to stop it altogether. I also had another problem with rmail constantly re-mailing all incoming mail so that it would show up as "from root" instead of who it was really from. Stacey@apple suggested that I get the rmail program from aux 1.0, but before that happened a friend of mine wrote a short "c" program to substitute for rmail, which has worked fine to this day. -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"