It was the BIOS settings. Somehow changing a power supply causes a few
things to happen:
1) The NIC cards' IRQs to conflict.
2) A prevalent amount of duplicate/bad sectors on one partition which
again leads to the destruction of /var/spool/mail/mark
3) The aforementioned user placing 0 0-23/12 * * * cp <mail spool> <dest>
into a crontab to try and keep this from happening again.
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Toby FreakSoft wrote:
>
> Sometimes a simply re-setting of the cards is all that is needed. You may also
> want to try booting up with each individually, to determine they both still
> work. Then putting them both in. Also try "cat /proc/pci"; does they both
> exist?
>
> ~ T
>
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