Duplicate messages/Unlinking failed

[Scott Silva]

Daniel Kleinsinger spake the following on 4/17/2006 9:14 AM:
> I received a duplicate message from my MailScanner box today.  There are
> no local users, the server is setup to redeliver to the mailbox servers
> with mailertable.  The second copy had no body, just headers.  In the
> mail log on the machine I found a bunch of error messages when searching
> for the message id.  The complete error messages are pasted below (some
> delivery info obfuscated).  There are many occurrences of this error
> message in my mail logs, going back about 4 weeks.  It's possible the
> error started when I upgraded to Sendmail 8.13.6 for that security fix,
> the timing seems right.
> 
> I'm running the above sendmail with MailScanner 4.51.6 and perl 5.8.0 on
> RH8.  When I did the upgrade I changed the "Lock Type" from flock to
> posix as recommended, but it seems like I'm having some type of locking
> problem.  Anyone have any advice?  I've also pasted the output of
> MailScanner -v below.

RedHat 8 might be a little too old to run cutting edge Sendmail. Did you find
the RPM somewhere or compile from source?


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