locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Oskar Eyb
hello! on one of my servers (7.0-R , Jail) I have a very strange problem I guess its something about LOCKing. some programs have issued with locking: saslauthd[38127] :main: could not lock pid lock file: /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid.lock saslauthd[38127] :main:

Re: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Oskar Eyb
2009 09:44:43 +0200 Von: Oskar Eyb fo...@gmx.de An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Betreff: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail) dovecot: 2009-05-29 03:45:50 Fatal: ssl-build-param: file_try_lock(/var/db/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp) failed: Invalid argument deliver(u...@example.com

Re: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it's completely strange for me too, as you said that directories are writable. the lock-errors from dovecot-deliver I ve solved my lock_method=dotlock (or flock). anyway it should work :( * The lock-issue is ONLY in jails! i do use jails, i do use dovecot for IMAP/POP and everything

Re: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So, what does that mean? What is limiting the locking in jails, howto avoid? other question - what filesystem do you use for directory when locks are placed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Oskar Eyb
hi, other question - what filesystem do you use for directory when locks are placed? in-jail# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1d on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) host-view: /dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) the jail is in /var/jails/mail/ ... additionally procfs on

Re: locking attempts fails in FreeBSD (jail)

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
other question - what filesystem do you use for directory when locks are placed? in-jail# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1d on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) me too UFS. no other questions, and no other ideas. sorry. procfs on /var/jails/mail/proc (procfs, local) devfs on /var/jails/mail/dev (devfs,