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Re: procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored

2002-02-06 12:04:28
At 13:07 2002-02-06 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote:
I keep getting these line in my procmail.log, and I'm not sure why.

procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored
procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored

What causes those locallockfile messages that litter my log?

Try searching the list archives. Also, try enabling VERBOSE logging, which would allow you to pair up these errors to the specific recipes which are triggering them. Chances are you have something like:

:0:
* somecondition
{
        :0:
        file
}


Or something more elaborate, but the idea is that you have the lockfile at the outer brace level and it isn't needed except when you're outputting to a file (or when running certain scripts which you don't want to have running concurrently).

This doesn't always happen either.  Sometimes, if a number of emails come
down at the same time, I see that.  But other times, when no mail has come
in for a while, I don't.  What's the deal here?

If the mail you're filtering doesn't travel clear through your rulesets, or trigger the rule which has the extraneous locallockfile, then you're not going to see the warnings, are you?

[snip - is your uptime really something that needs to be in a .sig?]

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