On 15 March 2000, S.Toms <tomas(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Neil Zanella wrote:
nz>
nz> Hello,
nz>
nz> I have been trying to use procmail but sometimes I get the
nz> following messages in my log file:
nz>
nz> procmail: Kernel-lock failed
nz> procmail: Kernel-unlock failed
nz>
nz> Does anyone know what could be causing this and what these
nz> messages mean?
nz>
It means that procmail was unsuccesful when it attempted to create
the lock file,
[...]
A kernel lock is not a lockfile.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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