Wrong lock type error messages

[Julian Field]

Run
sendmail -d0.1 -d0.4 -bt </dev/null
and see if it says HAVE_FLOCK.
It probably won't, in which case you should switch to posix locks in 
MailScanner.conf.

Steve Campbell wrote:
> Another thread caused me to think of this, and I don't recall ever 
> seeing the question asked this way:
> 
> I have upgraded to 8.13 sendmail using the RPMs from city-fan.org. One 
> of the recently-posted threads reminded me that I hadn't changed my lock 
> type from flock to posix. But I don't see any consequences of not doing 
> this so far. I guess it's possible that the RPMs might have been built 
> to use flock, but I'm not really sure this is an option for sendmail 8.13.
> 
> What should I be looking for in my maillog to see if this is a problem. 
> The only suspect message is a POP message issued quite frequently about 
> "trying to get a lock on the mailbox". Once in a while, I get df* or qf* 
> orphans in the input queue. This seems to be a normal thing for the df 
> files, but I don't recall seeing qf files before.
> 
> This does not seem to be an urgent problem, as things are going fairly 
> smoothly. I am using MS 4.52.2-1, and the logs say I am definitely using 
> flock.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
> 
> 

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