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by **Jean-Pierre Radle** » Sat, 06 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Lucky Leavell [UniXpress] telecommunicated:
| ABout 16:30 today, I realized I hadn't received any new email messages.
| Upon checking further, I found all my inbound messages sitting in
| /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg (and addr and q.local).
|
| Any ideas?

Switch to smail. It works. :-)
Or, if you have no uucp connections, switch to qmail.

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by **Lucky Leavel** » Sat, 06 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> Lucky Leavell [UniXpress] telecommunicated:
> | ABout 16:30 today, I realized I hadn't received any new email messages.
> | Upon checking further, I found all my inbound messages sitting in
> | /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg (and addr and q.local).
> |
> | Any ideas?

> Switch to smail. It works. :-)
> Or, if you have no uucp connections, switch to qmail.

If I switch to s/qmail, will I be hung out to dry when SVR5 (aka Gemini)
arrives? (I have been comtemplating all the joys of switching from MMDF to
sendmail...)

Finally, how difficult is it to switch?

Thank you,
Lucky

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by **Bela Lubki** » Sun, 07 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> ABout 16:30 today, I realized I hadn't received any new email messages.
> Upon checking further, I found all my inbound messages sitting in
> /usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg (and addr and q.local). Upon checking the
> /usr/mmdf/log/chan.log, I found numerous messages like:
> 9/ 4 21:38:48 local 5165: nonexistent dom/host (ap_dmnormalize): 'clandjop.com'
> 9/ 4 21:38:48 local 5165: nonexistent dom/host (ap_dmnormalize): 'clandjop.com'
> 9/ 4 21:38:48 local 5165: nonexistent dom/host (ap_dmnormalize): 'adam.com.au'
> 9/ 4 21:38:48 local 5165: [SYSERR(17)File exists] unable to get xenix lock
> 9/ 4 21:38:48 local 5165: [SYSERR(17)File exists] unable to get xenix lock

The problem appears to be with Xenix mail locks, which are obsolete and
ought to be disabled anyway. See mmdftailor(F). In
/usr/mmdf/mmdftailor, change MLCKTYPE to advisory (add it if it isn't
currently there).

Quote:>Bela<

by **Lucky Leavell [UniXpress** » Sun, 07 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> The problem appears to be with Xenix mail locks, which are obsolete and
> ought to be disabled anyway. See mmdftailor(F). In
> /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor, change MLCKTYPE to advisory (add it if it isn't
> currently there).

Bela,
You did it again!

I added the "MLCTYPE advisory" line to mmdftailor, stopped/restarted
MMDF and now Pine is behaving as it did before. I also notice the
/usr/mmdf/bin/daemon script cleans up lock files so, should this happen
again, I can try to simply stop/start MMDF and see if that clears it up
... unless, of course, I take JP's advise and switch to smail.

Thank you,
Lucky

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