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    SubjectRe: Pre2.0-8 & Sendmail

    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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