SYSERR(root): readqf: cannot open ./df*

[Stephane Lentz]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:20:33PM -0000, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
> ...
> >>
> >Well there could be a problem with flock on a 2.4 kernel, but it sounds
> >like something else is going on since changing to fcntl didn't fix it.
> >I've not see any problems like this on any of my RedHat mail servers,
> >you'd think that one that  handles some 250K messages per day would
> >encounter the problem at some point.
>
> Yes, you would!
>
>
> >What other services does this box provide? What kind of mail load does
> >it see? Are there any automated processes futzing with access.db?
>
>
> I didn't really post my configuration here it is...
> Mandrake 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19)
> sendmail 8.12.6
> mailscanner 3.23
>
The linux kernel flock problem is detailed on
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59992
The fix (patch) appears on :
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=63365
The kernel 2.4.19 included the relevant patch as far as I remember.
Looks like the problem is something else based on your configuration
details.

Regards,

SL/
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Stephane Lentz / Alcanet International - Internet Services