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,
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