Sun-managers,
Here is a second summary, based on the overwhelming response the
last one received. :-)
The last summary was as follows:
> Sun-managers comes through again,
>
> The original posting:
>
>| sun-managers,
>|
>| System config: mail server - Sun 3/280 4.1.1_U1
>| exports /var/spool/mail
>|
>| mail clients - SS2 4.1.2
>| mounts /var/spool/mail from mail server
>|
>| Problem:
>|
>| The following error messages occasionally show up on the console of
>| more than one SS2 mail client:
>|
>| Aug 11 14:45:43 mud sendmail[25486]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 14:45:55 mud sendmail[25491]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:00:43 mud sendmail[25486]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:00:55 mud sendmail[25491]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:10:46 mud sendmail[25748]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:10:54 mud sendmail[25753]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:14:41 mud sendmail[25763]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:25:46 mud sendmail[25748]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>| Aug 11 15:25:54 mud sendmail[25753]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from sol: Connection timed out
>|
>| Has anyone seen this before? Does it indicate a problem?
>| Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
>|
>| Thanks in advance, I will post a summary.
>
>
> The overwhelming consensus (and the correct answer! :-) was that
> the problem is due to the LACK of a 'newline' at the end of the
> mail file. For our particular case, this was due to the mailed
> file being created in emacs (our vi guru is eating this up!),
> which is prone to this behavior. A couple of people suggested
> that the missing 'newline' could also be in the .signature file
> (which is true, but not in this case).
>
> Four of the respondents said that they were also seeing the same
> messages, so I'm getting this summary out in short order.
>
> Thanks to all respondents,
>
> lister@athens (Andrew Lister - SUN Tech Support)
> rudi@chem.rug.nl (Rudi van Drunen)
> Neil Rumney <neil@department-computer-studies.napier.ac.uk>
> Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
> blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
> crosbie@math.clemson.edu (Scott Crosbie)
> pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas)
> poole@cs.widener.edu (Phil Poole)
> adaptec!met@uunet.UU.NET (Met Cirit X2242)
> "David T. Hightower" <hightowr@utah.afwc.af.mil>
> swanes@etswwmd.nyeq.gs.com (Steve Swaney)
> stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
> Ilkka Virtanen <ilkka@ee.oulu.fi>
> Larry Nelson <nelson@zorro.cecer.army.mil>
>
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Moral: to create waves, mention vi and emacs in the same posting :-)
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I received several responses as to the correct 'usage' of emacs. :-)
Four respondants suggested adding the following line to the .emacs
file:
(setq require-final-newline t)
which would force emacs to add a newline to the file before exiting.
Another suggested this alternative:
(setq require-final-newline 'ask)
Jared_Rhine@hmc.edu provided the following:
| 'require-final-newline':
|
| Documentation:
| *Value of t says silently ensure a file ends in a newline when
| it is saved. Non-nil but not t says ask user whether to add
| a newline when there isn't one. nil means don't add newlines.
|
| I would recommend adding a line like:
|
| (setq require-final-newline 1)
|
| to your .emacs.
Patrick O'Callaghan < poc@usb.ve > suggested using IDA-sendmail
which doesn't have this problem.
Thanks to all respondents,
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Christopher Hoover <ch@lks.csi.com>
Steven M Rezsutek <S.Rezsutek@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Brett M Hogden <hogden@rge.com>
Jared Rhine <jared@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>
pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas)
Patrick O'Callaghan <poc@usb.ve>
-- Bob
P.S. I filtered out all vi vs. emacs comments as they weren't
particularly appropriate.
P.S.S. I built emacs 19.19 this morning on our SS1000, and I
used vi to edit its' makefiles. This message was
composed in emacs. I guess that makes me
'ambideditrous' :-)
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