Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Pre2.0-8 & Sendmail | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 19:14:02 +0200 | From | Alain KNAFF <> |
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> >I just upgraded from 1.3.100 to Pre2.0-8 and it appears that sendmail has >broke. Whenever anyone attemps to sendmail from this system or incomming >mail from the "outside" world appears, I get the following error message: > >May 28 08:05:31 mike sendmail[217]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): cannot >lockf(/etc/aliases.dir, fd=6, type=1, omode=37777777777, euid=0): Device >or resource busy > >Rebooting back into 1.3.100 corrects the problem so I belive all my >permissions and things are fine. I would really like to check out the new >PPP fixes, but can't untill I get this problem fixed.
In recent kernels, it is now forbidden for a same process to hold lockf and flock locks, in order to avoid dead locks. Apparently sendmail does this. I had the same problem, upgraded sendmail, and it went away. However, this new sendmail has a new problem: it has an attitude :-( In order to fix this, locate the definitions of the smtp, esmtp and relay mailers, and add 8 to the flags:
Mesmtp, P=[IPC], F=8mDFMuXa, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, ^
Alain
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