David Pilgram
Mon, 06 May 2002 06:56:32 -0700
Dear Jürgen, I mount a 0.5GB partition on /home, and it's only 40% full, so rather unlikely to be full disc. I do this so that (when I get around to it), I can update the linux system, then remount all the /home files etc onto the new set up. I know it's a puzzle, I much prefer to be able to point out details, rather than an "it's just crashed on me". If only because my professional life is full of such questions, with people not giving enough, or indeed any, information. I once managed to spot a day-of-the-week bug (spotted in real time, as well...) I do have some experience in long, drawn-out bugs, but so far, I have no link or grasp on the problem. All I can report is that on two occasions, and for one account only, the *some* but not all folders are suddenly emptied at the same time, without me doing anything obvious, or any very obvious event. I think, but I would habe to check this, in one case it was inbox, the next received. That might be very important, but I will have to check CDROM back-ups. I can say the following: 1. That particular account is not used very often compared to others (including the account used to write this). So if it is a bug, why has it not occurred in accounts I use more frequently? 2. That account happens to have a very different name to that which it perports to be; i.e. the login name is qwerty, but it is otherwise know (and all emails perport to be from) asdfgh. But this is not the only case even on this computer, but usually it's to get around the 8 letter maximum for account names, so I'd use "webmast" for login and "webmaster" as the name as used for (for example) sendmail). Sorry for a not very helpful reply! Regards, David Pilgram.