Hi Managers,
I wrote:
> we got problems using mail with NFS-mounted /var/spool/mail.
> On all nodes 'mail' exits with an
> "binmail: cannot lockf /usr/spool/mail/gnolte" error.
> This mail configuration was ok for several days, but this
> afternoon it began to show this misbehaviour.
>
> The nfsserver has DU V3.2D-1, clients are using V3.2D and V4.0B.
>
> Any idea what the reason could be and how to avoid this problem in future?
We found out, that some tcp-services (rpcinfo: nlockmgr, llockmgr)
were not running on the server. The problem seemed to be a wrong
nameserver entry of a client. Correcting the nameservice data,
rebooting the client and the server solved the problem.
Thanks for replies from
Niels Kokholm <kokholm_at_math.ku.dk>
Santosh Krishnan x2815 <santosh_at_heplinux1.uta.edu>
Stephen Dowdy <dowdy_at_cs.colorado.edu>
Don Weyel <weyel_at_bme.unc.edu>
Gerhard
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Gerhard Nolte
Email: gnolte_at_gwdg.de Voice: +49-551-5176-716 Fax: +49-551-5176-704
MPI fuer Stroemungsforschung, Bunsenstr. 10, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
Received on Tue Jun 03 1997 - 10:04:12 NZST