Cannot create+lock headers file

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 24 16:42:44 IST 2005


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On 24 Aug 2005, at 16:18, Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:50 PM Glenn Steen wrote:
>> Don't rightly know, but it sure would scare me:-).
>>
>
> :-)
>
>> As to why... I presume you don't have any premission issues...
>
> So do I.
>
>> Do you
>> use tmpfs for it?
>
> No.
>
>> Is the fs intact?
>
> I suppose. Nothing obvious.
>
>> Does a restart of MS "fix" it?
>
> I just searched my maillogs from the past weeks. It only shows one  
> occurence (the one I quoted). I will probably just ignore this and  
> see if it ever happens again.

Check for anything obvious such as running out of disk space or inodes.

> Locktype = posix should be ok for exim and FreeBSD, should it not?

Unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, leave this setting  
blank and let MailScanner work it out for itself.

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