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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:11567 comp.os.linux:27942 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!concert!samba!sunSITE!jem From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: Mail-Server for agate and tsx-11? Message-ID: <1993Mar1.065712.28322@samba.oit.unc.edu> Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: sunsite.unc.edu Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill References: <VIXIE.93Feb18164935@cognition.pa.dec.com> <1993Mar1.051838.2144@uws.EDU.AU> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 06:57:12 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Mar1.051838.2144@uws.EDU.AU> jbenger@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Jonathan Benger) writes: >and does anyone know what's wrong withe the mailserver at sunsite? I only >used it once or twice and since then it's been offline. Yes, I know what's wrong. I noticed that you had been using it. I don't like the name jbenger so I disabled it to keep it away from you. ;) Seriously, I'm sorry its still down. I was going to fix it Friday but was Commanded to write something Immediately Useful. So there we are. But I did have time to sit down with the Perl debugger and find out what the problem is, even though I haven't fixed it. In case anybody cares, the problem is caused by the usual FTPD time out when someone requests big files (1 meg+). it causes one of the ftp functions to fail where there is no handling for a failure and then the server goes into an infinite loop of resending the first n files. <sigh> hopefully I'll fix it tomorrow. ;) jem.