> however, once my PPP connection went down, smail suddenly couldn't
> resolve any hostnames, and suddenly flooded the mail queue with all
> the remaining messages, going so fast that it eventually ran out of
> process table entries (i think!).
>
> my solution was to change my invocation of smail
> At 5 in the morning, my system sends out some 300 email messages.. I think
> smail ran out of file handles or something.
i've had a related problem with smail. i have a perl script that
generates 1400 or so messages, which it sends by piping them through
`/usr/lib/sendmail -t' (a link to smail
>From /var/log/smail/paniclog:
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/logfile:
File table overflow
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog:
File table overflow
>From /var/log/messages:
Sep 29 05:09:30 kite kernel: Unable to load interpre
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