Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!crin!tombre
From: tombre@crin.crin.fr (Karl Tombre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sendmail locks
Message-ID: <408@crin.crin.fr>
Date: 17 Feb 88 11:54:37 GMT
Reply-To: tombre@crin.crin.fr (Karl Tombre)
Organization: CRIN - INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France
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We have a strange problem occuring now and then on our VAX, running 4.2 Bsd.

Sometimes, mail to be processed by sendmail gets bogged down in
/usr/spool/mqueue for a while, probably because of too high load on
sendmail (am I right here ?). But logically, when sendmail gets idle again,
it should be able to process them again (at the next "process queue" event).

The problem is that there remains a lf* file (i.e. a lock file) and the mail
may remain in mqueue for several days... When the VAX is rebooting, the mail
gets finally delivered. That is not very reliable...

I can manually remove the lock files and then do a sendmail -q to process
the mail ; however, I don't understand why the lock remains... Is there an
explanation ?

--- Karl Tombre @ CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy)
EMAIL : tombre@crin.crin.fr  --   tombre@crin.UUCP
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