Re: what is "unable to fork" email err message means?

[Frederick Noronha <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was 'unable to fork' a hint of the problem at Yahoo? Why I'm asking is
because I got the same message too last week, when I tried to submit my
form to a website <http://dmoz.org> Rgds, FN

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> M K Saravanan rearranged electrons thusly:
> 
> > when one of my friend tried to send a mail to some yahoo ids., he got the
> > following returned mail from mailer-daemon.  I am not able to understand these
> > error messages.  Any Clue?
>  
>  Looks like Yahoo had a "temporary failure" for too long.  This unable to fork
>  sounds like they had a full disk someplace (likely their mail spool)
>  
>