Sendmail et Lock Type

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>Denis Beauchemin spake the following on 9/27/2005 1:09 PM:
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>I just discovered that one of my servers running sendmail 8.13.1 has a
>>blank "Lock Type" in MailScanner.conf (running version 4.44.6).  I
>>sometimes see lines line the following in the log:
>>Sep 27 14:20:01 smtpe2 sendmail[9072]: j8RGeDXL003186: SYSERR(root):
>>readqf: cannot open ./dfj8RGeDXL003186: No such file or directory
>>
>>I guess they are related.  I tried to remember how to get confirmation
>>that my sendmail was indeed using posix locks but couldn't find anything...
>>
>>I tried "sendmail -d0.1</dev/null" but there is nothing in the output
>>about locks...  can someone help me out?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Denis
>>
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>Try "sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | grep HASFLOCK"
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Scott,

It prints nothing.  So I guess it doesn't use FLOCK but uses LOCKF (or 
Posix) locks?

Denis

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