Hello,
What is the proper solution to the problem below the sig?
For a similar issue, Phillip Guenther, procmail's maintainer, at
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail/1623/match=error+writing+var+spool+mail>
suggests "chmod g+s /usr/bin/procmail", but I'm reluctant.
There are also suggestions that in this configuration the packager must
make certain that fcntl locking is in force, but I DUNNO.
Full disclosure: postfix is version 2.3, compiled locally. Procmail is
invoked with by postfix via "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail".
Thanks in advance for your time.
rgds/ldv
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to
"/var/spool/mail/_2VF.HWivEB.mail.texoma.net"
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/vaden"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/vaden"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
From dbmail-bounces at dbmail.org Wed Jul 19 07:28:55 2006
Subject: RE: [Dbmail] Delete accounts
Folder: /var/spool/mail/vaden
[vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail/vaden
-rw-rw---- 1 vaden mail 224051703 Jul 19 08:42 /var/spool/mail/vaden
[vaden at mail ~]$ procmail -v
procmail v3.22 2001/09/10
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Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther
<guenther at sendmail.com>
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Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
It may be writable by your primary group
Your system mailbox: /var/mail/vaden
n.b.: original installer probably didn't realize initial /var size was
too limiting:
[vaden at mail ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
264G 44G 207G 18% /
/dev/sda1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot
none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 9.9G 5.8G 3.7G 62% /var
[vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var
total 180
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 08:00 account
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 netdump netdump 4096 Mar 8 18:54 crash
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 db
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 empty
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 ftp
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Apr 19 21:01 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 local
drwxrwxr-x 5 root lock 4096 Jul 19 00:07 lock
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 19 00:07 log
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 14 2005 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 14 2005 mail -> spool/mail
drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Dec 14 2005 named
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 nis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 preserve
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 12 18:19 run
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 spool
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 2 21:25 tmp
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 tux
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 5 2006 www
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 2005 yp
[vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool
total 388
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 anacron
drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 4096 Dec 14 2005 at
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Jun 11 09:55 clientmqueue
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 18:52 cron
drwx--x--- 3 root sys 4096 Jan 11 2006 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 lpd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 mail -> /mail-spools/
drwx------ 2 root mail 278528 Jun 22 18:39 mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 postfix
drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Dec 31 2005 repackage
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 07:59 samba
drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 Dec 31 2005 squid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 21:35 up2date
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 vbox
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 1 17:57 work
[vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 /var/spool/mail -> /mail-spools/
[vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/procmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 80428 Feb 21 2005 /usr/bin/procmail
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/vaden
[vaden at mail ~]$