On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 12:38:35PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> >Ok. Not to be faceatous(sp?) or anything... just being curious :) What
> >will this prove/solve/whatnot? I may have missed out on a bit of info
> >in that, from memory, if I clear /tmp then it eventually safes (albeit
> >in an icky corrupted manner).
> >
> >Anyways, just trying to find out why I may be about to do something :)
>
> ---end quote---
>
> I'm betting that this crashing is because your maildir is running out of
> space, or your tmpdir is full of junk that needs to be cleared.
It'd be /tmp from memory. This needs to be solved because it makes mutt
potentially painful in a multi-user environment. For eg:
User A runs mutt with a big mailbox
User B runs an app that just filled up /tmp to near capacity
User A tries to quit mutt. Waits patiently, putt gets to 99% and then fails
silently.
User B's usage of /tmp deminishes to sane levels
User A goes 'Hrm. Bloody Heck' and tries again. This time mutt succeeds and
overwrites his mailbox with a corrupt version
User A comes back later on to find half his mailbox fragged and curses the
name of mutt.
User B parties in ignorance. ;)
As for /var/spool/mail, it had the room (this is from distantish memory
now... it's been a fortnight since I first made my report so I'm anout
98% confident). /tmp was rather closeish to full from memory. (around
30meg free at one time and 11meg at another time).
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