Re: procmail locking problem

[Kenneth Stephen <y2kmvs@ebiz.austin.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Are you sure you are using procmail from woody?  If so then that error

	Reasonably. I had been running Potato but did a dist-upgrade.

> message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail.
> /var/spool/mail should be a symlink to ../mail for compatibility.

	I note that in /etc/postfix/main.cf, the mail_spool_directory
entry has two values : /var/mail and /var/spool/mail . Both are commented
out, so I guess postfix is taking whatever the defaults is. The symlink
you mentioned exists.

>
> What are the permissions on /usr/bin/procmail?  Mine from woody are as
> follows.
>
> -rwsr-sr-x    1 root     mail        65532 Apr 16 11:26 /usr/bin/procmail
>
	They match the above. Version of procmail is 3.22-4

Thanks,
Kenneth