According to Raider: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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.
I do not use these programs, so i cant check thier behavouir, so i realy
cant say what the next thing to check is.
You seem to be on the correct path check your system log(s) in /var/log/ the
answer might just be in there.
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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Regards Richard.
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