Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: \"sendmail\"(?) Problem (Probably 4.2 kernel, really) Message-ID: <6596@boring.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:49:14 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.6596 Posted: Sat Aug 24 17:49:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:30:28 EDT Reply-To: jack@mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 16 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL [ It seems there is no such person as 'russell' @ ucb-vax. Funny..] Aha. That shows how the auto-reboot of 4.2 can bite you. The 'table overflow' didn't come from sendmail or mail, it came from the kernel. The kernel paniced (is that the right past tens of panic?), and did an auto-reboot. It seems that your kernel is configured to come up single user after a reboot. So, that explains why she was 'root' after the mail command, and why the second mail returned to root. -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.