Hello managers:
Here we have a tricky situation. It is completelly random in time and
occurence. Let me describe it.
Some times and randomly the following character sequence appears in some
files at /usr/spool/mail files (my users Inboxes)
' (lower case "y")
This string usually appears immediately before the "From" tag or at the
end of message files. The sequence can be of any size (e.g. ' or
'''' or ''''''''''''''''). Also, the string can
appear in many places in the same file and with different sizes.
This string can be viwed only with the console file editor. With vi it
appears as a ^ alone and we can not change it using pattern edit or
substitute it using regular expressions with the s/\'\// sed command
(anything wrong with the replace command?)
When this happens, users can not catch any other messages found after
those strange characters nor can the system put new incoming messages in
those files. We use POP3 agent.
Any sugestions ???
TIA
Orson Voerckel Galvao
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Ilhius - Bahia - Brasil
Received on Mon Oct 26 1998 - 12:09:26 NZDT