From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 00:11:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29331 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 00:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (root@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA29283 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 00:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA11657; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:10:03 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199610080710.HAA11657@veda.is> Subject: Re: Netscape mail (out of memory) To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ttam@mail.iidpwr.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org In-Reply-To: <3259951C.41C67EA6@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "Oct 7, 96 11:41:16 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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