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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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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