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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!alterdial.uu.net!not-for-mail From: tom@jax-inter.net (Tom Pantazi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: POPPER - Out of resources Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 18:03:13 GMT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <46ivdf$3gd@alterdial.UU.NET> References: <46ipd7$kjk@alterdial.UU.NET> <46ismd$cvr@news.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net1.jax-inter.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99a.107 pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) wrote: [snipped] >You have a serious system problem of some sort, but the message from >popper is a symptom, not a cause. The fact that you can't even fork a shell >on the box is a good indication that it's either very screwed up (with >large runaway processes consuming memory or flooding of the file/process >tables) or just too busy. > >>Does anyone know of a better popper? > >No, the one you have is good and stable. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. >>How about a >>good place for tech support for a popper? > >comp.mail.misc is where to go for help with POP servers. But in your case >comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc would probably be a better choice since you have >bigger problems. I kinda doubted sendmail would be where I'd look for popper info but I checked mail.misc and saw nothing. Thanks though I guess the popper is not the problem. > >Or get a BSDI support contract. If you have trouble diagnosing problems >like this, I think you'd probably find a support contract a very good >investment. I'll give them a call. >In any event, comp.mail.sendmail is probably not the right place for your >posting (I assume this since you never mentioned sendmail in your posting...) > See above. Tom Pantazi - Jax Internet tom@jax-inter.net Voice 904-296-1201 "Oops. My brain just hit a bad sector!"