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- From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: A question and an enhancement request.
- Message-ID: <0095DF3E.63BA2E00.8114@swdev.si.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:57:38 EDT
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
- X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
- Lines: 41
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- The question is this: is it typical for MX to lock the SYSTEM_QUEUE.FLQ_CTL file
- when it is receiving mail? I've noticed a few times that when mail is incoming
- from SMTP and I try to send a message outbound, I get a message from mail that
- it can't send mail and that the error is: %RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by
- another user. At the same time, if I go to a terminal and say MCP QUE
- SHOW/ALL/FULL, it also reports:
-
- %MCP-E-QOPENERR, error occurred opening system message queue
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
-
- Once the inbound mail gets delivered, all is well again. Can I expect to see
- more and more instances of this as my use of MX grows? If so, it's a fairly
- sizable drawback.
-
- My enhancement request is that MX open the log files differently, like VMS opens
- log files, so that one can TYPE the current log file to see what's going on.
- Riht now, I can see previous versions of the log, but when I try to type the
- current version, I get:
-
- $ typ mx_local_dir:mx_local_*.log
- %TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MX_ROOT:[LOCAL]MX_LOCAL_NODE1.LOG;14 as input
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
- $ typ mx_router_dir:mx_router_*.log
- %TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MX_ROOT:[ROUTER]MX_ROUTER_NODE1.LOG;13 as input
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
- %TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MX_ROOT:[ROUTER]MX_ROUTER_NODE2.LOG;5 as input
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
- $ typ mx_smtp_dir:mx_smtp_*.log
- %TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MX_ROOT:[SMTP]MX_SMTP_NODE1.LOG;13 as input
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
- %TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MX_ROOT:[SMTP]MX_SMTP_NODE2.LOG;5 as input
- -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
-
- It would be nice if MX would take out a different kind of lock on the log files.
-
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- Brian Tillman | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
- Smiths Industries, Inc. |
- 4141 Eastern Ave. MS129 | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
- Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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