Strange behavior since update to latest version... Failed to

Petry Roman, ITS-IT Roman.Petry at DILLINGER.BIZ
Thu Aug 5 08:02:32 IST 2004


Hi, here is Roman again...

As i said, i changed the locking type to posix in Mailscanner.conf and now
everything is O.K... No error again since yesterday morning.. 40000 mails
passed without a problem..

Thanks to the List for help. 8-).. The strange thing is , that the old
version did not have the same problems with flock.. 8-)).. Biut who cares..

Bye
Roman

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Von: Peter Peters [mailto:P.G.M.Peters at UTWENTE.NL] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 20:23
An: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: Strange behavior since update to latest version... Failed to


On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:37:32 +0100, you wrote:

>I ran into the "Failed to link message body between queues" problem 
>after upgrading the Sendmail 8.13.1 (from 8.12.10) to get the 
>greet_pause feature.
>
>As mentioned, it appears the under Linux, the default locking has been 
>changed from flock to fnctl.  I recompiled Sendmail, explcitly setting 
>flock, and I'm not getting anymore error messages, and everything 
>appears good for the last hour or so.
>
>I used:
>APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF',`-DHASFLOCK=1')
>in my devtools/Site/site.config.m4 file.

So I expect Petry (who did the opposite) will also have solved his problems.

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