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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> 
> Did you get those in the output from /etc/daily? If so, then they're

That's exactly where I got this.

> harmless. This is the result of /etc/daily executing mailq while its
> output is being piped into sendmail, catching sendmail in the middle of
> constructing the message control file. I haven't seen it in other
> situations, but I guess it would be all the same if you catch the queue
> while a message is being written to it. If it goes awat after a few
> seconds I'd say there's nothing to worry about.
> 
> Nadav
> 

Okay -- my mind is at ease on this now.  Thank you.


 Ben

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