[CLUE-Tech] procmail lock failure

[Charles Oriez]

At 03:06 PM 9/20/2004, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>Just a follow-up on this.
>
>My procmailrc says:
>
>>:0:
>>* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>>/var/spool/mail/SPAMASSASSIN
>
>
>My procmail.log says:
>
>>procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/SPAMASSASSIN.lock"
>
>
>And my mailbox looks like:
>
>>-rw----rw-    1 root     mail         8.2M Sep 20 17:00 
>>/var/spool/mail/SPAMASSASSIN
>
>
>
>
>Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>
>>Does procmail lock a mailbox before it processes the mailbox?  If so, why 
>>am I having a hard time locking a mailbox for spamassassin?  Every once 
>>in a while I see it failed to lock the mailbox.
>>
>>Angelo

http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#locking

you have to explicitly lock, which is what the : after the 0 does.  I don't 
lock when routing to /dev/null or forwarding, but do lock when delivering 
to my mailbox.

I think your permissions are hosed.

-rw----rw-  should probably read -rw-rw-rw-

what is the sequence? user-group-world?


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