Error: binmail[#]: cannot lockf /usr/spool/mail$user
As of just 2 days ago, I keep getting complaints from a few users...
/var/spool/mail is share through nfs and automount.
We have one main mail server, and in order to have email funnelled to the
ONE right place, that's why we have /var/spool/mail crossmounted (also so
people can see inboxes on other servers). Is there a way to tell sendmail
on the other 7 servers to forward the mail to the main server instead of it
trying to deliver localally to the crossmounted spool/mail?
mail.log:Sep 14 16:27:06 suhep binmail[30888]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:27:40 suhep binmail[30740]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:27:48 suhep binmail[30871]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:27:49 suhep binmail[30903]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:28:02 suhep binmail[30870]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:28:07 suhep binmail[30874]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/silvia
mail.log:Sep 14 16:28:41 suhep binmail[30782]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:28:49 suhep binmail[24466]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/silvia
mail.log:Sep 14 16:28:50 suhep binmail[24381]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:29:02 suhep binmail[30653]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/viehhaus
mail.log:Sep 14 16:29:07 suhep binmail[30724]: cannot lockf
/usr/spool/mail/silvia
Something really screwy is happening since when one of these "cannot lockf"
starts, I can no longer telnet to the machine they were using. It says
connected, then just hangs.
For the time being I'm going to disallow mounting of /var/spool/mail, but I
think the root of the problem is something else, since we've been operating
fine for months this way.
On a possibly related note, in the logs:
Sep 14 14:21:03 hepsu01 lockd[317]: call_rpc to hepsu01 STATv1 failed: RPC:
Timed out
Sep 14 14:21:03 hepsu01 lockd[317]: rpc.lockd: Cannot contact status monitor!
Virtually nothing in the way of sysadmin has changed on these machines.
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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_phy.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.phy.syr.edu/~dkirk Fax: (315) 443-9103
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