[SunHELP] sendmail problems; adding new users

[Tom Savage]

Thanks so much,  this has helped!

Nicholas Dronen wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:34:51PM -0400, Tom Savage wrote:
> > We currently use sendmail 8.9.3 and recently are experiencing problems
> > adding new users. This became apparent after attempting to delete an
> > existing user using admin tool.   Attempting an ls -al in the
> > /export/home directory returns an ./775  I/O error message.
> > A 775 file also exists in this directory which I assume is referencing
> > an misreported inode number.
>
> It's probably not a misreported inode number;
> it was, more likely, the semi-former user's uid.
> If /export/home is on a local disk, I'd check
> the messages file for errors -- /var/adm/messages.
>
> I/O errors are in my experience most often caused
> by hardware problems or filesystem corruption.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicholas Dronen
>
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