Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail. > > I like to peek into the binary to make sure of what I am getting. > Therefore I ran 'strings' on /usr/bin/procmail and see this. > > strings /usr/bin/procmail |grep /var >

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 15:55:30 -0500]: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Are you sure you are using procmail from woody? If so then that error > Reasonably. I had been running Potato but did a dist-upgrade. Sounds reasonable. > > message should be for

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > Are you sure you are using procmail from woody? If so then that error Reasonably. I had been running Potato but did a dist-upgrade. > message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail. > /var/spool/mail should be a symlink to

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 11:43:43 -0500]: > I am using Postfix on Woody as the MTA and procmail as the MDA. In > my procmail log file, I see messages such as : > > procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/y2kmvs.lock" > > The ownership of /var/spool/mail is r