My unix administrators are in the process of elliminating my
current domain and existing server and sucking it into another one.
In preparation for this, they changed the mail routing to another
machine instead of my server.
All of a sudden, I am getting the following types of errors in
my log file.
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:10 1998
procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*keeper"
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:18 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:26 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:34 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:42 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:50 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:49:58 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: [7456] Thu Aug 13 16:50:06 1998
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_f0BQrdssrv"
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/toddl.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/toddl"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/toddl"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/toddl"
.. and so forth.
Then it hits the last statement in my procmailrc file which forwards
the mail as is to my POP server.
I have tried recompiling procmail and that did not help.
I suspect it is a permission problem - so I tried to create the file
referenced above: _f0BQrdssrv and toddl.lock and I was able to create
them in my normal login shell.
However, I assume the shell that procmail uses does not have the right
permissions? Am I on the right track?
If this is so - what kind of information should I forward to the admin
to get this fixed?
[sigh] why cant they just leave things alone.
toddl