On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Andrew Alston wrote:
>
> > Hi, when I try to send mail to myself from the local machine or anyone on
> > the local machine I get the following error:
> >
> > 1997-09-03 13:22:35 0x6DW6-0006KG-00 Failed to get write lock for
> > /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Device or resource busy
> > 1997-09-03 13:22:35 0x6DW6-0006KG-00 Failed to get write lock for
> > /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Device or resource busy
> >
> > however the mail seems to arrive at its destination... This message
> > appears in exim_mainlog in my /var/adm/exim_mainlog file, anyone know wut
> > the problem could be or a solution to it?
>
> Exim is failing to get a lock when trying to open its retry database. It
> should do this for all deliveries, not just local ones. If it can't
> access its retry information (which is just "hints") it behaves as if
> there is none - and always tries the delivery. That is why the mail is
> getting through.
>
> My Solaris manual suggests that this error might occur if the lock is
> held by another process. However, Exim attempts to lock with the statement
>
> rc = fcntl(fd, F_SETLKW, &lock_data);
>
> which should wait until the lock is available. (It is done within an
> alarm(), to time it out - but if that happened the error message should
> be "timeout".)
>
> What operating system are you using?
>
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University Computing Service,
> ph10@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> P.Hazel@??? England. Phone: +44 1223 334714
>
I am using Linux (slackware 3.2), the strange thing is that if the retry
database was held by another process, surely the old version which I have
now put back just incase till I know whats going on, would do the same
thing, seeing it uses the same file as the new installation does for its
retry database? (same directory same file in config file), is this perhaps
a bug in 1.70?
Andrew Alston
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