Hello fellow managers,
first of all many thanks to
Dejan Muhamedagic
Kai Grunau
Petr Jordan
Richard L Jackson Jr
who were trying to help me.
( see original question at the end of this letter ).
Like in many other cases, the solution is very simple. Petr Jordan had
had the right idea. He advised me to check, if nfs-locking is enable.
For some reason (???) it wasn't ! After rerunning nfssetup ( this time
with nfs-locking enabled ) everything is fine (again).
Ciao,
Marcus Bahlo
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Marcus Bahlo
Digital Systems Institute
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Kaiserslautern Phone : ++49-631/205-2604
Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse Fax : ++49-631/205-3606
D-67663 Kaiserslautern / Germany E-Mail : bahlo_at_e-technik.uni-kl.de
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Original message:
>
> Hello fellow managers,
>
> for a few days now our mailsystem does some strange things.
>
> We have 4 Alphas and 4 HPs. On one Alpha we have our mail-directory
> /var/spool/mail/ . All other machines are mounting this directory
> via nfs ( as they always did ). On all machines you can list your
> mailfile using e.g. "more /usr/spool/mail/userxy". So the directory is
> mounted correctly. But "mail" only works on the server. On all other
> Alphas you get the errormessage:
>
> "binmail: cannot lockf /usr/spool/mail/userxy"
>
> On the HPs you get the message:
>
> "mail: can not lock on /var/mail/userxy after 10 tries"
>
> Also sending messages directly via mail ( e.g. "mail userxy" ) does
> only work on the server. ( No errormessages but also no mail on all
> other machines. )
>
> If we are using netscape for reading the mails, everything's perfect
> ( i.e. The new mails are being moved to .nsmail/Inbox and
> /var/spool/mail/userxy is an empty file )
>
> Further more, some users say, they don't get any mails now for several
> days, although the are sure, they should have received some.
>
> BTW: We haven't changed anything at our system for months !
>
> Are we going to get crazy ???
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Ciao,
> Marcus Bahlo
Received on Fri Dec 12 1997 - 14:06:51 NZDT