Thank you everyone so much for your help... now I can go to bed!
I think it's fixed now... I'll check again tomorrow after some sleep but
some is coming in and no more lock file errors in the logs...
the permissions were:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 4096 Aug 18 23:15 /var/spool/mail
-rws--x--x 2 root bin 40960 Nov 15 1996 /usr/bin/binmail
-rwsr-xr-x 4 root bin 204800 Feb 2 1997 /usr/sbin/sendmail
so I did a chmod 1777 and chgrp mail to /var/spool/mail...
Still saw nothing coming in... stopped and restarted sendmail and it
started getting mail.
Still not sure what caused the sudden change...
Thanks again! time for some ZZZzzz's
>Can someone please help me figure out why there's no incoming mail?
>
>The machine responds from externally, web server is running, I can send
>mail out...
>
>In the messages, for each incoming mail I get the following message:
>Aug 18 22:07:03 suhep binmail[722]: Cannot create mail lock file
>/usr/spool/mail/USER.lock
>
>I also see some like:
>Aug 18 22:10:00 suhep sendmail[929]: AA00927: to=<USER_at_suhep.phy.syr.edu>,
>delay=00:00:01, stat=Can't create output
>
>So the machine responds and is reachable in and out, and no disks are full.
>
>
>
>Please reply to dkirkpa1_at_twcny.rr.com since I can't get any mail here!
>
>- Dan Kirkpatrick - dkirk_at_physics.syr.edu -
>| Systems Administrator |
>| Physics Department |
>| Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
>-------------------------------------------
Received on Thu Aug 19 1999 - 04:14:23 NZST