This error is generated by the popd daemon, I have seen it before and it
took me FOREVER to track it down, I have no idea how they came up with the
'disk error' eroor message but what the problem actually is, is a lock fle
in the users home directory. go into there directory, remove the lock file
(I believe it is mbox.lock) and the problem should go away.
It is afe to say that there isn't a problem with your hard-drive...
Wil Boucher
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 11:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: delivery errors?
>
>
> At 09:52 AM 3/17/99 -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Sam wrote:
> >
> >> > Mar 17 07:31:09 1C:ella ipop3d[1417154]: Retrying after disk error
> >> > user=spertus host=UNKNOWN mbx=/acct/faculty/spertus/mbox: Invalid
> argument
> >> > Mar 16 23:57:57 1C:ella ipop3d[1417154]: Retrying after disk error
> >> > user=spertus host=206.111.145.243
> mbx=/acct/faculty/spertus/mbox: Error 0
> >>
> >> My guess would be a disk error, just what it says. Exactly why do you
> >> suspect some other reason?
> >
> >Well, just that incoming mail for this user writes to
> /var/mail/spertus. I
> >can't see why (or how) her POP client would be trying to write to
> >/acct/faculty/spertus/mbox . Perhaps I am missing the obvious ;>
>
> It might be more useful if you asked about ipop3d (whatever that is) on a
> list devoted to ipop3d. Call me dumb, but I'm not sure which part
> of qmail
> you think is relevant to an unrelated program complaining about "Invalid
> argument".
>
>
> Regards.
>
