[tpop3d-discuss] Lockfile problems..

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:33:56PM -0800, James Gurney wrote:
> This morning in my spool folder, I noticed the following files:
> 
> -r--r-----    1 dean     mail            0 Dec  1 02:28 
> dean.18998.1070274490.devious

> The syslog contains:

What is dean's quota like?

> Dec  1 02:28:10 devious tpop3d[18998]: dotfile_lock(/var/mail/dean): 
> unable to write PID to hitching post: No space left on device

> Ideas?

If you don't need .lock support, switch it off and use
fcntl locking only. Otherwise be prepared to put up with
occasional flakiness. It's not as if a .lock is a very
sensible mutual exclusion primitive anyway.

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