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Subject: Re: qmail error
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Hi budsz!
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, budsz wrote:

> Hi...
> 
> When i compiled qmail in FreeBSD 4.2 ,i got some message "multilog:
> fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure"

are you also using daemontools?
we encountered the same problem on our server, and the elegant solution was
to use svc to shut the service down properly (svc -dx <path/to/supervise/dir>)

otherwise, 

- check the permisions on that directory (it should be qmail.qnofiles):
    # ls -ld /var/log/qmail
- check if there is no other multilog process running and holding the lock on
the directory:
    # lsof +d /var/log/qmail
and eventualy kill that/those process(es):
    # kill `!! | awk '/multilog/{print $2}'` 

hope it helps
cheers,

-- teodor

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