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Re: [procmail] Re: lockfile on INCLUDERC to throttle?

1999-12-11 16:14:13
Professional Software Engineering wrote:

<> >enough the other person's lockfile will be removed or will be deemed stale.)
<> >Does a verbose logfile say that the lockfile couldn't be acquired?
<> 
<> Verbose isn't normally on (whoa, no way am I doing that with the volume of 
<> spam filtering that goes on, combined with the volume of mail I 
<> receive).  Seeing as this process thoroughly thrashes the system, I'm not 
<> particularly enamoured of repeating it: I'd just as soon make the changes 
<> that SHOULD fix the problem, then run a controlled test to confirm that it 
<> is fixed.

Just wrap the section with the "not global lock" in VERBOSE=yes/no; you
might even have it write to a separate logfile ...

RL
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