We are running dovecot-1.2.10 on a Solaris 10 x86 host. Starting on July 24 I started seeing the following type lock files I the /var/mail directory. -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 agabriel.lock.1343138908.28535.hardy.purdue.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 agabriel.lock.1343138907.28535.hardy.purdue.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 agabriel.lock.1343138906.28535.hardy.purdue.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 agabriel.lock.1343138905.28535.hardy.purdue.edu They are being created by only three of our users. What is common with the three users is that they are using alpine mail client. Again these just started on July 24. We have over 300 user and a lot of them use alpine but only three users seem to generate these lock files. Can some one tell me what and why these are being created and why they are not getting destroyed? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
Dovecot doesn't create lock files named like these. On 25.7.2012, at 22.50, McGraw, Robert P wrote:> > We are running dovecot-1.2.10 on a Solaris 10 x86 host. > > Starting on July 24 I started seeing the following type lock files I the > /var/mail directory. > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 > agabriel.lock.1343138908.28535.hardy.purdue.edu > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 > agabriel.lock.1343138907.28535.hardy.purdue.edu > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 > agabriel.lock.1343138906.28535.hardy.purdue.edu > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 > agabriel.lock.1343138905.28535.hardy.purdue.edu > > They are being created by only three of our users. What is common with the > three > users is that they are using alpine mail client. > > Again these just started on July 24. > > We have over 300 user and a lot of them use alpine but only three users > seem to > generate these lock files. > > Can some one tell me what and why these are being created and why they are > not getting destroyed? > > Thanks > > Robert > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Robert P. McGraw, Jr. > Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu > Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 > Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 > 150 N. University Street > West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 > > > > >
> From: "McGraw, Robert P" <rmcgraw at purdue.edu> > > We are running dovecot-1.2.10 on a Solaris 10 x86 host. > > Starting on July 24 I started seeing the following type lock files I the > /var/mail directory. > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 agab mail 0 Jul 24 10:08 > agabriel.lock.1343138908.28535.hardy.purdue.eduHmm, are you sure these are dovecot locks? They look sort of like what alpine would produce. Do your clients have direct filesystem access to the INBOX spool? Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>