November 5, 2002
A server in error.
To be slightly more specific, a diabolically obtuse error message along the lines of: -ERR[SYS/PERM] Unable to process from lines in /var/spool/mail/; Change recognition mode or check for corrupted mail drop. System what? Permanent? Corrupted? Yuck. I just love getting error reports like this one from folks trying to access mail on one of my servers. Of course, up until yesterday I had never seen an error like this before. Doesn’t that just figure? It couldn’t have been a problem that I had successfully dealt with in the past, right? I had to be completely new. Thank goodness for Google. A quick trip to a couple of mailing list archives, and then diving into vi to trim a half dozen partially digested lines out of a mail spool file. Shazam! Everything works again. The user is happy. I am amazed.
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