Re: Lock failure

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 02:26:58 EST


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:02:42PM -0800, Steve Larsen wrote:
>
> Hi, I am setting up Postfix on RedHat 7.1 and have made the recommeded changes to main.cf and the aliases file as recommended in the HOW-TO's. I have set up sendmail, but I am new to Postfix. No email is being recieved when I send it via pine. The email is addressed to . The mail is bounced and I receive the following message in /var/log/maillog. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks. Steve.
>
> Command output: procmail: Couldn't crea
> te "/var/spool/mail/larsen" procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool
> /mail/larsen.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/m
> ail/larsen" )

touch /var/spool/mail/larsen
chown larsen /var/spool/mail/larsen
chmod 600 /var/spool/mail/larsen

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