I was hoping for a solution that would not effect
procmail. It seems to me that reducing the locking
capabilities of procmail (removing lockf and fcntl)
would oopen the door for other problems.
Is there a solution whereby I can correct the mailtool
problem. One possibility would be to have the 12
affected individuals not use mailtool. But the problem
is with mailtool on 2.5.1 and 2.6 (as I later
found on the Sun web site).
Any additional ideas, experiences, ...?
Thanks
-Marshal-
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 guenther+procmail(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu wrote:
==>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:06:30 -0500
==>From: guenther+procmail(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu
==>To: Marshal Benton <post_bote(_at_)post(_dot_)com>
==>Cc: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
==>Subject: Re: mailbox lock problem with mailtool
==>
==>Marshal Benton <post_bote(_at_)post(_dot_)com> writes:
==>>Has anyone seen a mailbox locking problem
==>>when using procmail in conjunction with
==>>the Sun mailtool on solaris 2.5 and 2.6 over nfs?
==>...
==>
==><sigh>
==>
==>To quote the FAQ that comes with the procmail source:
==>
==>
==>16. My mailtool sometimes reports that it is confused about the state of
==> the mailbox, or I get "Couldn't unlock" errors from procmail now and
then,
==> or sometimes it simply seems to hang just when new mail arrives.
==>
==> This is a known bug in the OpenLook mailtool. It holds on to
==> the kernel lock on the mail-spoolfile most of the time as a
==> signal to other mailtool processes. With newer versions of
==> mailtool, enabling the "Use network aware mail file locking"
==> configuration option may solve the problem, though this option
==> isn't always available. If that doesn't work then recompile
==> procmail with both the fcntl() and lockf() locking method
==> disabled (see config.h).
==>
==>
==>
==>Philip Guenther
==>
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