Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:46:48AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't imagine an easy way to tell whether a binary
> > is built with or without the big-todo patch :(
>
> Well, to me, this situation seems quite clear. qmail-send sees the 23
> todo dirs but doesn't notice those are dirs and not files. It then
> goes look for the mess files in the hashed structure. Funnily, a file
> named '14' will end up in dir '14' because that's how the modulo
> function that qmail uses, works.
Thanks to Peter, I can now confirm that this was due to an I/O error --
Idiot Operator. The queue structure did in fact reflect big-todo, but
after triple-checking the binaries, it appeared that the patch hadn't
actually been applied.
There's a bit of a story behind this (I'll tell it to anyone who's
interested); suffice to say, to correct other problems caused during a
migration to NIS/yp & Kerberos, I had occasion to run queue-fix on this
queue. Unfortunately, the queue-fix I ran had the big-todo patch applied,
and the qmail installation itself did not.
I thank all the list members who so kindly contributed their observations
and suggestions.
Charles
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