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- From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Mail - lost !!
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:48:18 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- We have a network of Sun workstations which are connected
- to a Sun server. All the workstations have their own disks.
-
- Yesterday, the server could not create processes for a certain
- duration (something like 2 hours) and nobody noticed it because
- file service was still available. During this time, we lost
- many mails sent to users within our computer system. It is
- understandable that the server could not deliver the mails
- because it could not create new processes. But, I believed
- that the workstations should have preserved a copy of the
- mails until they received acknowledgement that the mail has
- been successfully sent. But there is nothing preserved on the
- workstations.
-
- Do you know how this could have happened and how it can be
- avoided in the future ?
-
- Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
-
- Suresh
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- Suresh B Peram Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching
- Department of Computer Science Member of UPE CS Honor Society
- Texas A&M, College St TX 77840 Member of IEEE Computer Society & ACM
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