this smells suspiciously to me like it may be a _hardware_ level problem.
Perhaps the disk has become inconsistent in a subtle way. Have you tried
fsck'ing the disk?
Charles Cazabon writes:
> Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:27:14PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
>> > I've also just noticed something else odd about the error messages -- aren't
>> > the files in the split directories normally named by inode number? In this
>> > case, the "missing" files all share the names of the split directories that
>> > qmail thinks they should be in -- i.e. mess/13/13, mess/14/14, etc.
>
>> Could it be the big-todo patch somehow failed?
>> Or - that you have a big-todo queue layout and the active qmail
>> installation (or at least qmail-send) uses the vanilla qmail structure.
>> Then it would think the subdirs in todo are files and tries to find the
>> corresponding files in queue/mess, which obviously would fail as this
>> are no files, but dirs?
>
> That's the funny part -- this is a machine which has worked fine for two
> years, and just recently started giving me this trouble. I haven't changed
> the qmail installation itself.
>
> Charles
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