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- From: glenr@aruba.UUCP (Glen Reesor)
- Subject: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.155328.11649@aruba.uucp>
- Sender: glenr@ruby (Glen Reesor)
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:53:28 GMT
- Organization: Project Zed
- Keywords: mail,lock
- Lines: 50
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- I'm using the ftpmail server at decwrl. When I request large files it usually
- takes a few tries to get all parts. Up until now I just thought that some
- site along the way was dropping them. But the other day I noticed a number
- of bounced messages going *back* to decwrl, so it appears that it is
- *my* site dropping parts. My system configuration is:
-
- Network of HP9000/730's running HPUX 8.07. All machines share a single
- /usr/mail directory using NFS. The machine that /usr/mail actually resides
- on is our UUCP machine. My account is not on the UUCP machine, thus the mail
- will be routed from the UUCP machine to my machine using SMTP.
-
- I've configured sendmail to mail a copy of all bounced headers to postmaster,
- and this is what I get:
-
- --------------------------------------cut--------------------------------------
- From MAILER-DAEMON@onyx Sat Sep 5 21:27 EDT 1992
- Received: from ruby by onyx with SMTP
- (16.8/16.2) id AB20350; Sat, 5 Sep 92 21:26:49 -0400
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:32:58 -0700
- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@onyx>
- Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON@onyx>
- Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output
- To: Postmaster@onyx
- Status: RO
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
- mail: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- 550 <glenr@onyx>... Can't create output
-
- ----- Message header follows -----
- --------------------------------------cut--------------------------------------
-
- onyx is the machine that my account is on and ruby is the UUCP machine. I've
- RTFM'ed and can't find any reference to "Can't create output". Since I don't
- understand the in's and out's of mail lock files all I can postulate is that
- more than one piece of mail is trying to be delivered at once. This
- particular mail bounced on Saturday in the evening, so there was no mail
- other than from decwrl coming to me.
-
- So.....is it a problem with NFS mounting /usr/mail? Or is sendmail tripping
- over itself because of the volume of mail coming to me all at once?
-
- If I can get this worked out, FTP mail may actually be semi-painless! Any
- suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Please e-mail. I will summarize if there is interest.
-
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- Glen Reesor |Internet Style: aruba!glenr@uu2.psi.com
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