From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 05:40:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09124 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 05:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (root@alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09110 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 05:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA13565; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:40:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Gerald Ehritz cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: pine 3.96 locks 3.0-980621 completely In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:47:40 +0200." <199807231047.MAA07977@arcturus.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:40:15 -0400 Message-ID: <13561.901197615@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerald Ehritz wrote in message ID <199807231047.MAA07977@arcturus.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>: > Hi all, > > We use a 3.0-980621 and discovered soem days ago, that writing out an attachm > ent ( > 100k) to a file locks up the machine completely. No login possible an > d also no log to screen or file. > Except this pine works fine. > > PC: Pentium , 32 MB Mem; Mail dir NSF mounted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but that is just *asking* for problems, especially if you are using default mailbox format, because there is probably inadquate locking going on, and you may truncate the mailbox not realizing that sendmail just delivered new mail (not to mention other nasties) Since you are using Pine, try IMAP or POP. Works *much* better, and I bet the machine will stop crashing also :) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message