RE: [Exim] lockfile

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Mike Bethune
Cc: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Asunto: RE: [Exim] lockfile
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Bethune wrote:

> this is what i figured so i do this for a long time --
> while :; do find /home -name "*lock" -ls; sleep 1; done
> and even send myself some big mails and i never get to see a lock file
> so i would suspect exim isn't creating them eventhough it should be ?


One second is a long time on a modern computer. Basically, that loop is
almost always waiting. I would not be surprised that it never notices
the lock.

Why not deliver mail to yourself with debugging turned on?

exim -d9 yourself
some test message
.

The debugging output (on stderr) will tell you about locking.


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