[Esd-l] procmail lock failure

[Murray Crane]

Scott Taylor wrote:

> At 12:15 AM 02/05/2004, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Mgr_Marcela_Doni=E8ov=E1?= wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I install procmail-sanitizer and in procmail.log i found
>>
>> procmail lock: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/quarantine.lock"
>>
>> What is wrong ?
>
>
> Permissions?
>
> That's a guess.  I'm also going to guess that it has nothing to do 
> with the sanitizer, if you are, in fact, talking about John Hardin's 
> email-sanitizer v1.139.  The email-sanitizer usually creates messages 
> like: 'Attempt to quarantine the following message in 
> $SECURITY_QUARANTINE failed.'
>
> I think we'll need to know more about your setup.
>
> What else does procmail do for you?
>
> your procmailrc file or ~/.procmailrc file would be good to see too.
>
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Equally, does /var/spool/mail.quarantine.lock already exist?  If not, 
'touch' it and see if that helps. If it does exist, 'rm' it and see if 
that helps... Too many unknowns at this point...

Murray Crane
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