Duplicate messages/Unlinking failed

[Daniel Kleinsinger]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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?
>   

I used a SRPM to build an RPM.  I don't remember where I got it from, 
but someone on this or the sa-users list recommended it for legacy 
redhat systems.

Daniel