[rhn-users] mail not working
Ben Fitzgerald
ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 11 21:25:25 UTC 2006
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:26:46AM -0900, Duane Christensen wrote:
> Hi,
> For whatever reason, all of a sudden, when I log in as root and type in
> 'mail', I get the following error:
>
> fseek: Invalid argument
> panic: temporary file seek
> Aborted
>
> Any ideas?
Please post the output of:
ben at debian$ ls -l /var/spool/mail/root
ben at debian$ df -k /var/spool/mail/root
I'm wondering if your mail file is corrupt or perhaps simply too large.
You could try backing up the file then truncating it to a smaller size
(at the end of a message).
HTH,
Ben.
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