On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Raider: While burning my CPU.
> > I was getting my mail as usual (fetchmail/procmail). And there
> > appears procmail:kernel-lock failed than procmail:kernel-unlock failed.
> > What does this mean?
> At a guess the programs cannot create a lock file or when they close cant
> find the lock file causing the unlock problem.
My thoughts exactly. I mean, according to the manual, fetchmail
takes the messages from the server and gives them to procmail. Which
normally has a /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME.lock file that locks the mailbox
during this process. But why does this error happen?
> Check the man pages and documentation for the programs concerned to find
> out where the lock files are (supposed) to be created, check that the
> directory exists and that a user application can write to that directory.
It can. I checked the man pages just in case. But it can.
Because that happened just once AFAIK.
Raider
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