[9fans] my incoming mail has died

[9fans] my incoming mail has died

[matt lawless]

all of a sudden I can't receive mail

I don't remember changing anything in the last couple of hours

juice Nov  4 22:29:48 error local!matt From postmaster Tue Nov  4
22:29:48 GMT 2
003
error+  from 'postmaster'
error+ to 'matt' alias `local!matt'
error+ failed with error 'getkey: opening /dev/cons: '/dev/cons' does not
exist
error+ proc_start: '/bin/rc' does not exist
error+ '.

If you can help me, please CC it to this address (webmail) as it's the
only one I can read

thanks

m

--
  matt lawless
  maht0x0r@xsmail.com

--
http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users:
  http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html

Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died

[Charles Forsyth]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 55 bytes --]

i find it best to use ramfs >[2]/dev/null in a pipeto

[-- Attachment #2: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 3359 bytes --]

From: "matt lawless" <maht0x0r@xsmail.com>
To: "David Presotto" <presotto@closedmind.org>, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:49:20 -0800
Message-ID: <20031105004920.16DAD3F928@server1.messagingengine.com>


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:14:48 -0500, "David Presotto"
<presotto@closedmind.org> said:
> Looks to me like something in mail is trying to authenticate.
> Do you have a pipeto?

it's the

 > $TMP

that triggers it

d-rwxrwxrwx M 9 upas upas 0 Nov 10  2003 /mail/tmp

(the clock is wrong on the server, I just found out - Mon Nov 10 00:45:44
GMT 2003)


So I guess that leaves few possibilities


I have only been using my terminal to do non-plan9 work today so I'm
confident I haven't changed anything (on purpose)

The mail chugs away on the auth/cpu/kfs server

The last mail I have in my mbox is 7.30pm and I noticed around 10.30pm
that nothing new had arrived for a while.

m
--
  matt lawless
  maht0x0r@xsmail.com

--
http://www.fastmail.fm - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place

Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died

[matt lawless]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:14:48 -0500, "David Presotto"
<presotto@closedmind.org> said:
> Looks to me like something in mail is trying to authenticate.
> Do you have a pipeto?

it's the

 > $TMP

that triggers it

d-rwxrwxrwx M 9 upas upas 0 Nov 10  2003 /mail/tmp

(the clock is wrong on the server, I just found out - Mon Nov 10 00:45:44
GMT 2003)


So I guess that leaves few possibilities


I have only been using my terminal to do non-plan9 work today so I'm
confident I haven't changed anything (on purpose)

The mail chugs away on the auth/cpu/kfs server

The last mail I have in my mbox is 7.30pm and I noticed around 10.30pm
that nothing new had arrived for a while.

m
--
  matt lawless
  maht0x0r@xsmail.com

--
http://www.fastmail.fm - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place

Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died

[David Presotto]

Just for a wild guess, I'ld take a close look at:

/usr/matt/bin/rc/face_from_pattern_match

in particular looking for any mount.

Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died

[matt lawless]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:14:48 -0500, "David Presotto"
<presotto@closedmind.org> said:
> Looks to me like something in mail is trying to authenticate.
> Do you have a pipeto?

I've posted a copy here

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/p9-4/pipeto

It hasn't been changed :

--rwxr-xr-x M 9 matt upas 1143 Oct  5 17:49 /mail/box/matt/pipeto

but you are right in that removing the pipeto cures the problem

I'll take stuff out till I find out what it is

m
-- 
  matt lawless
  maht0x0r@xsmail.com

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different…

Re: [9fans] my incoming mail has died

[David Presotto]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 84 bytes --]

Looks to me like something in mail is trying to authenticate.
Do you have a pipeto?

[-- Attachment #2: Type: message/rfc822, Size: 2794 bytes --]

From: "matt lawless" <maht0x0r@xsmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] my incoming mail has died
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:38:38 -0800
Message-ID: <20031104213838.9810C40307@server1.messagingengine.com>

all of a sudden I can't receive mail

I don't remember changing anything in the last couple of hours

juice Nov  4 22:29:48 error local!matt From postmaster Tue Nov  4
22:29:48 GMT 2
003
error+  from 'postmaster'
error+ to 'matt' alias `local!matt'
error+ failed with error 'getkey: opening /dev/cons: '/dev/cons' does not
exist
error+ proc_start: '/bin/rc' does not exist
error+ '.

If you can help me, please CC it to this address (webmail) as it's the
only one I can read

thanks

m

--
  matt lawless
  maht0x0r@xsmail.com

--
http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users:
  http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html