On 15 March 2000, S.Toms <tomas(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Liviu Daia wrote:
ld> On 15 March 2000, S.Toms <tomas(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com> wrote:
ld> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Neil Zanella wrote:
ld> >
ld> > nz>
ld> > nz> Hello,
ld> > nz>
ld> > nz> I have been trying to use procmail but sometimes I get the
ld> > nz> following messages in my log file:
ld> > nz>
ld> > nz> procmail: Kernel-lock failed
ld> > nz> procmail: Kernel-unlock failed
ld> > nz>
ld> > nz> Does anyone know what could be causing this and what these
ld> > nz> messages mean?
ld> >
ld> > It means that procmail was unsuccesful when it attempted to create
ld> > the lock file,
ld> [...]
ld>
ld> A kernel lock is not a lockfile.
Then what is it, because that's when I have noticed that error.
A kernel lock is a flag inside the kernel; a lockfile is just a
file. They are generally orthogonal to each other, and setting either
of them might fail for a wide variety of reasons (incorrect use of a
Procmail recipe being just one of them).
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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