Quoth Jon S on Wed, Mar 24, 1999:
> 1999-03-23 20:37:17 10PfPJ-0004QJ-00 == receiver@??? T=local_delivery defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /var/spool/mail/receiver (fcntl)
>
> The server that hosts /var/spool/mail is a solaris 2.5 box and the mail
> exchangers are Linux (kernel: 2.2.2, distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1).
Debian, Debian... At least not everyone uses DeadRat these days.
Ahem. I haven't said anything.
Ok, mail directory on NFS. Add the following option to your
appendfile transport:
no_use_fcntl_lock
Usually, you can't do flock(2)/fcntl(2) via NFS (unless lockd (or
something) runs).
> The only mail that was delivered was one user that filters
> with procmail.
That's because, well, pipes don't do file locking, but real
appendfile does.
Vadik.
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