Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:10:59 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: Jeremy Buckner <jeremy@cableaz.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with mail server Message-ID: <20010823121058.A5663@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <001301c12bec$340e1960$0c0aa8c0@caz>; from jeremy@cableaz.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:56:41AM -0700 References: <001301c12bec$340e1960$0c0aa8c0@caz>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:56:41AM -0700, Jeremy Buckner thus sprach: > 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) Since we can't see your drive it's hard to tell. But I've done the same. I made /usr/mail. I moved /var/mail /var/mail.old then made a new symbolic link to that /var/mail points to /usr/mail. If that is how you've done than, then check the permissions of all the files and directories. If that's not how you did it then you probably have something still pointing to /var. The endpoint directory should be 775 with root/mail owner/group in a typical install > 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. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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