Greetings.
I am currently maintaining several linux servers with full internet
services, and suddenly, quite without warning, one of them (2.0.0 kernel -
slackware dist.) started bouncing back mail with errors like -
procmail: Enforcing stricter permissions on "/var/spool/mail/ntsnwa"
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/ntsnwa.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/ntsnwa"
550 <ntsnwa(_at_)dreamland(_dot_)dicksonstreet(_dot_)com>... Can't create
output: Error 0
It would seem that this would either entail a bad permission on a file in
/var/spool/mail or sendmail (or procmail) is not running with the correct
permissions (as root?)
Here is an example entry from /var/spool/mail -
-rw-rw---- 1 ntsnwa mail 0 Apr 2 13:24 ntsnwa
^^^^^^^^^^ is this not correct? I have another box on the same network and
they 'appear' the same.
Typing 'procmail -v' reveals -
procmail v3.10 1994/10/31 written and created by Stephen R. van den Berg
berg(_at_)pool(_dot_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
<snip --- for your convenience --- snip>
Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl(), lockf()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
System mailbox: /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
Telnet'ing in yields -
220 dreamland.dicksonstreet.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.3/8.8.3; Wed,2 Apr1997 21:0
What can I do to fix this? I have searched usenet and found a similar
question w/o a reply yet. Can I expect this from my other machine running
same versions? Why have a never seen this before on the other
configurations I have run?
HELP!
Jeff