On August 17, 1998 at 22:35, Mats Dufberg wrote:
> Once in a while mail to the archive is refuse with error
> "ERROR: Unable to create /path/.mhonarc.lck after 20 tries"
>
> I have increased both times between tries and the number of tries with
> -lockdelay 15 -locktries 20
>
> The machine is quite busy. Has any one tried any other solutions such as
> always "exit 75" (temporay failure) if locking fails?
v2.3 will do this (should be in the alpha release).
Note, if a MHonArc process abnormally terminated, the lock will
never get freed. I need to look into better ways to deal with
stale locks (maybe create a pid file and do a kill 0).
--ewh
