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Procmail + NFS

1996-12-16 15:41:27
Hello,

Some time ago I changed my MTA from sendmail to qmail. qmail delivers mail
directly in my NFS mounted home directory. I recompiled procmail to change the
default mailbox, and it works ok most of the time.

My problems begin when the host that serves my home dir goes down. When it's
up again, procmail seems to have some weird locking problems I can only solve
by changing the folder inode number. From the log file:

procmail: Forcing lock on "/home/specmac/anr/Mailbox.lock"
procmail: No match on "^To: linux-security(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com"
[SNIP]
procmail: No match on "^Sender: owner-msql-list(_at_)bunyip(_dot_)com"
procmail: Locking "/home/specmac/anr/Mailbox.lock"
procmail: [4124] Sun Nov 17 23:27:37 1996
procmail: Locking "/home/specmac/anr/Mailbox.lock"
procmail: [4124] Sun Nov 17 23:27:45 1996
procmail: Locking "/home/specmac/anr/Mailbox.lock"
procmail: [4124] Sun Nov 17 23:27:53 1996

And it goes on ad nauseam. Disabling procmail, killing process 4124 and
removing the lock file doesn't solve the problem. I have to do

mv Mailbox Mailbox.old; cp Mailbox.old Mailbox

also. Any ideas?

BTW, I'm using procmail v3.10 running in SunOS 4.1.3.

Thanks,

Adriano

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