Re: [error] Extraneous locallockfile ignored

Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen 
<petersen(_at_)kurims(_dot_)kyoto-u(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> writes:
...
> Recently (I first noticed this today), I get the following error
> report from mailstat
>
> ~% mailstat -t ~/.mail-log
>      0       1  ## procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored
>   1988       1 xemacs-discuss
>
> What does it mean exactly?  Should I worry about it?
It means you have a locallockfile on a nested block recipe.  So we look
in your .procmailrc and we find:

...
> :0:
> * 
> ^TO.*(petersen(>|\W*(,|$)|@kurims|@qmw)|kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp!petersen|Jens-UH 
> Petersen|Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen)
> {
>   :0 c
>   backup
>
>   :0 ic
>   | find $MAILDIR/backup/ -ctime +7 -name 'msg.*' -exec /bin/rm '{}' ';'
>
>   :0
>   personal
> }
Remove the second colon on the outside recipe.  BTW: are "backup" and
"personal" directories?  If not, they should have locallockfiles (add
that second colon to them).


Philip Guenther