Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:53:56 -0500 From: Marcel Mason <mmason@nunanet.com> To: Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with mail server Message-ID: <3B855F54.4468F7B8@nunanet.com> References: <001301c12bec$340e1960$0c0aa8c0@caz>
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Just was there & did that, ran into probs and got the following from another kind soul to help me out :-) unplug server from network (can be done while connected but adds extra steps) kill -9 `cat /where/ever/sendmailpid/is/sendmail.pid` mv /location/of/popper /location/of/popper.hold ps ax to look for any left over pop or sendmail processes - kill them mv /current/mail/dir/* /new/mail/dir set up symlink so it all works restart sendmail, rename popper.hold back to popper Bob's yer uncle, or at least it worked for me M Jeremy Buckner wrote: > > Hello, I had my mail server run out of room in /var today. > No mail could be sent or received. (Don' laugh to hard) > Anyway to remedy the problem I moved everything from /var to > /usr/var and did the whole ln- s thing too. Now everyone can > send just fine but not receive. This is the error I get: > > -ERR [SYS/TEMP] maillock error 'Other lock error' (5) on > '/var/mail/usermailbox': No such file or directory (2) > > What is that and how do I fix it? I assume when the problem > occurred, a lock file of somesort was created to stop mail. > Maybe? > > Also I am running FreeBSD 4.3 with sendmail and qpopper. > > Thanks > Jeremy Buckner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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