jbb
Mon, 06 May 2002 12:17:42 -0700
Dear David,
What about the user quotas?
Shalom,
John B. Brown.
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On Sun, 05 May 2002 23:43:31 +0100 (BST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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