Re: Root mail account is dying

From: A. Rick Anderson (a_rick_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/03/05

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    Paul Howarth wrote:
    > A. Rick Anderson wrote:
    >
    >> Whenever I attempt to access mail from root, it pauses, then dies with
    >> the following error message.
    ..
    >> fseek: Invalid argument
    >> panic: temporary file seek
    >> Aborted
    >> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
    >
    > Perhaps /var/spool/mail/root lives on one of the bad disk blocks that
    > SMART is complaining about?
    >
    > Can you copy /var/spool/mail/root to another file and then open it with
    > "Mail -f filename"?

    Tried moving it to /root/mail and then opened it with the -f command. I
    got the exact same error. However, since I had "moved" the mail file,
    that effectively meant that the original file under /var/spool/mail was
    now gone.

    Running a simple mail gave me the expected "no mail" message, but exited
    gracefully. I am assuming the mail file was corrupted somehow. 

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A. Rick Anderson
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