Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 21:40:44 -0500 (CDT) | From | webexpre@webhelpe ... | Subject | Re: Pre2.0-8 & Sendmail |
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Which sendmail is this in reference to?
Thanks!
Alex.
On Tue, 28 May 1996, Alain KNAFF wrote:
> > > > >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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