Re: gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has been sent

[Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>]

The following reply was made to PR gnats/186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: m_venkateshkumar@mindtree.com,gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnats/186: gnats-queue not getting empty even after PR has
  been sent
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:11:04 +0200

 At 06:58 02.05.2001 +0000, m_venkateshkumar@mindtree.com wrote:
 > >Description:
 >I create a PR using the send-pr program. I can see that this PR gets 
 >queued in the gnats-queue directory.
 >When I run queue-pr --run, the sender and the person responsible get the mail.
 >But, the PR DOES NOT get removed from the gnats-queue directory, and stays 
 >there, but this time, with another uniquely generated file name.
 >Because of this, the same PR is being sent to the person responsible for 
 >many many times.
 >In my machine, I was not present for 5 days, and the entire disk became 
 >full because of this problem!!
 >
 >Can somebody tell me why this is happening?
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >Dont know. This condition was not happening for about 3 days after I 
 >installed GNATS. This problem suddenly started appearing since 5 days.
 >Now, whenever I do a send-pr, this problem is occuring.
 
 Off the top of my head, I would suggest you check whether someone changed 
 any of the involved mail aliases -- you seem to have a loop in there somewhere.
 
 Yngve Svendsen
 IS Engineer
 Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
 yngve.svendsen@clustra.com