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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:21:04 GMT
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- From: "Mike Hannon; UCD Physics; (916)-752-4966" <MIKE@UCDHEP>
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- Greetings. We're using PMDF V3.2 on a VMS 5.4-2 VAXstation 3100 model 76. We
- seem to be having problems with mail delivery. We run Multinet V3.0 as our
- TCP/IP and Jnet V3.5. The problems may or may not have come upon us suddenly.
-
- I noticed yesterday that I had very few network mail messages, considering all
- the mailing lists I'm on. Also, one of our users complained that he had not
- received Internet mail that he sent to himself from an outside site. At that
- time the VAX had been up for about 153 days, so I figured that this was no big
- deal. I.e., s**t happens, very large buffers eventually fill up, etc., etc.
- So I rebooted the VAX, expecting to clear up the problem. The reboot didn't
- help.
-
- I have been receiving and sending Internet, Bitnet, and HEPnet mail on a daily
- basis from and to sites all over the world, so I had no reason to expect
- problems with PMDF. But I noticed that PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.L] had over 1700 files
- in it, so I executed the command:
-
- $ @pmdf_root:[exe]master L
-
- This caused me to get hundreds of mail messages, some dated as long ago as May
- of this year. Apparently a large number of messages also went out over the net.
-
- I continued to test, and messages did not get delivered unless I executed
- MASTER.COM by hand. I then did:
-
- $ @sys$startup:pmdf_submit_jobs
-
- This caused messages to be processed, but only at the default time interval of
- four hours. I now have this job run automatically every half hour, by setting
- the logical name PMDF_POST_INTERVAL to 00:30:00. This is tolerable, I guess,
- but I'm pretty sure I didn't do that before.
-
- We seem to be on very shaky ground with a system which we count on to be
- reliable, and I don't know why (maybe we're not in Kansas any more?). Can
- anybody help with this. The only change in the system files that I can recall
- that I made lately was to put the following at the start of SYLOGIN.COM:
-
- $ VERIFY = 'F$VERIFY(0)
- $ MODE = F$MODE ()
- $ IF (MODE .NES. "INTERACTIVE") .AND. (MODE .NES. "BATCH") THEN EXIT
-
- Previously I had not turned off verify, and I had tested only for MODE equal to
- NETWORK for the exit. The above was added to allow users to rlogin to the VAX
- from our Ultrix systems.
-
- Thanks.
-
- - Mike
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- Mike Hannon mike@ucdhep (Bitnet)
- ucdhep::mike (HEPnet) 42385::mike (HEPnet)
- mike@ucdhep.ucdavis.edu (Internet) 916-752-4966 (Telephone)
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