Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen) Cc: freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ttam@mail.iidpwr.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail (out of memory) Message-ID: <199610080710.HAA11657@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <3259951C.41C67EA6@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "Oct 7, 96 11:41:16 pm"
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Dan Eischen: > I have a local account on the system as deischen that I use to do root > things. This system also uses NIS and AMD to a Sun Solaris 2.5 box. > The other user doesn't have a local account on the system, so he was > logged in with an NIS user ID/password. I also have an NIS user ID > and password, though I don't use it as much as I should. When I logged > in with my NIS user ID, I got the same exact "out of memory" problem. Hi Dan, and thanks for the extra correlations. Yes! This has narrowed down the problem somewhat, I am also seeing it as a NIS user. > I got really curious and started poking around with ktrace/kdump to > see if I could figure it out, but wasn't able to. I noted that Netscape > writes its mail file to /tmp before sending it. This was fine - we > all had rights to /tmp and I could see the file being written and > then deleted. Using kdump, I could see the SMTP session with our > SMTP server - everything looked fine, except when Netscape got > around to issuing the "DATA" command to the SMTP server, there was > no mail (no characters at all) after that point. Whatever it is, it > doesn't end up issuing the mail to the SMTP server. Identical to what I saw with tcpdump. > What does using NIS/AMD have anything to do with Netscape mail? Is it > a per-user limit that's getting hit somewhere? And why "out of memory" when there would seem to be plenty available? -- Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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