Re: Lock failure

From: Steve Larsen (no email)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 11:19:13 EST


 
 
>
> Hi, I am setting up Postfix on RedHat 7.1 and have made the recommeded cha
> nges 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" )

Until the RedHat people come up with a better developed solution
than shipping procmail as non-setuid,

# chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail

is your way to get procmail mail delivery from postfix.

Wietse
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Thank you for your help Wietse! Your fix solved the problem. Thanks again!

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