Re: Mail and news

[Mike Patterson <mike@col.hp.com>]

>Mike Patterson writes:

>Have a look at /var/spool/smail/log/logfile and
>/var/spool/smail/log/paniclog to see if Smail has anything to tell
>you.

bash# ls -l logfile
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Feb 16 07:03 logfile
bash# 

bash# ls -l paniclog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Feb 16 07:03 paniclog
bash# 

Ah. the logfile.0 has a little more useful information:

02/15/96 11:06:48: open_spool: /var/spool/smail/input/0talp0-0008spC: lock fail
ed: Try again

02/15/96 11:07:54: open_spool: /var/spool/smail/input/0tbD4n-00091DC: lock fail
ed: Try again


More information available if this isn't enough.