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- From: abao@sunwise (Angela Bao)
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- Subject: Re: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- Message-ID: <23282@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:16:42 GMT
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- glenr@aruba.UUCP (Glen Reesor) writes:
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- : mail: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- : 550 <glenr@onyx>... Can't create output
- :
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- I have a similar problem. I have several HP 720 running 8.07 mounting
- a Sun 4/470's /var/spool/mail as /usr/mail. This SUN is also the
- NIS server for all these machines. Mail worked fine for months.
- The problem started occuring recently. From time to time, I will get the
- "lock not creatable after 10 tries" message during login, as root or as a
- regular user. The problem is INCONSISTENT. Sometimes it happens only as
- a normal user, sometimes only on certain machines. Even worse, sometimes
- the login will completely hang. Yet I can start another login session with no
- problem and 'ps' indicates the hung login was at 'mail -e'. I also notice
- that the lock file is created with no permission bits set.
-
- Anyone have any ideas? I saw someone posted suggestions to replace
- /bin/mail. But what is the cause of this mysterious problem?
-
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