Dear osf-managers,
I am having a strange problem with a users mail. It binmail cannot lockf
the /usr/spool/mail file for that user. I'm a bit mystified as to why this
is occurring. No other user seems to have that problem. I have checked the
permissions on users mail spool file and they seem correct.
Additionally, this mail spool area is NFS-mounted on other hosts. The
problem is occuring both from these remote hosts and the host on which
the spool area actuall resides.
There is a sample of output from the /var/adm/syslog.dated file mail.log.
Any help appreciated.
Steve.
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Apr 19 17:51:29 einstein binmail[16664]: cannot lockf /usr/spool/mail/pettitt
Apr 19 17:51:29 einstein sendmail[16686]: AA16530:
to=<pettitt_at_einstein.fsc.qut.edu.au>, delay=00:31:38, stat=Deferred
Apr 19 17:56:10 einstein sendmail[16745]: AA16745:
message-id=<Pine.OSF.3.91.950
419175556.16739A-100000_at_einstein.fsc.qut.edu.au>
Apr 19 17:56:10 einstein sendmail[16745]: AA16745: from=pettitt,
size=315, class=0, received from local
Apr 19 17:57:10 einstein binmail[16713]: cannot lockf /usr/spool/mail/pettitt
Apr 19 17:57:10 einstein sendmail[16736]: AA16745: to=Tony Pettitt
<pettitt_at_einstein.fsc.qut.edu.au>, delay=00:01:00, stat=Deferred
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Steve Imber e-mail: S.Imber_at_qut.edu.au
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Received on Wed Apr 19 1995 - 04:07:43 NZST