ph10@??? said:
} Hmm. The queue runner, when it starts up, uses an opendir()/readdir()
} loop to read the names of all existing spool files. Could opendir()
} be locking the directory somehow and preventing writing to it in such
} a way as to prevent the creation of new files? This must be very
} operating system specific. Any Linux experts reading this who can
} comment?
I have never heard of anything like this - and it would affect a lot of
things. Also our core mail servers are all running under Linux (on SPARC)
and I can't find any instances of this in the logs (and we move a lot of
mail).
Nigel.
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