Re: [Exim] Delivery to NFS-mounted filesystem

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andreas Edler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Delivery to NFS-mounted filesystem
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Andreas Edler wrote:

> I now have got a system where /var/spool/mail and /home
> is NFS mounted.


So have I.

> On the standard local_delivery I get following error:
>
> local_delivery defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /var/mail/test (fcntl)


I do not, otherwise I wouldn't be answering this mail!

My system is Solaris 8, and the data is on a NetApp fileserver. Looks
like whatever is holding your data is not running a lockd, or not
running one that works. Or maybe your Exim box isn't running a lockd.

The exim_lock utility is a useful tool for checking out mailbox locking
problems.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.