Hi all,
In the final stages of recovering my system. The final hurdle is that mail
cannot be received, although it can be sent. The following is in the
rejected mail:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(reason: can't create (user) output file)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/sbryan.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/sbryan"
550 5.0.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Can't create output
The setup is RH7.2 Sendmail 8.11 (came on the CD)
The directories /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/mqueue are both symlinks to
directories on /var/auc which is where the new HDD is mounted, twas like
that before.
This is the permissions and settings on the real directories:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Apr 10 12:16 mail
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 16384 Apr 10 11:13 mailold
drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 40960 Apr 10 12:16 mqueue
The symlinks are:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 19 Apr 10 11:39 mail ->
/var/auc/spool/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 21 Apr 10 12:18 mqueue ->
/var/auc/spool/mqueue
and chmod has no effect on them.
Sendmail is running as root and listening on port 25
FOund this on the net (googling):
Lock failure on "x"
Can only occur if you specify some real weird (and illegal) lockfilenames or
if the lockfile could not be created because of insufficient permissions or
nonexistent subdirectories.
So assume it is permissions, have tried 777 on the mail directory but same
result.
Any clues appreciated,
_________________________________________
Simon Bryan
IT Manager - OLMC Parramatta
ICQ#:137562751
http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au
_________________________________________
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