Procmail & linux 1.3?

James L. McGill (fishbowl@pic.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:43:40 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I would guess that maybe locking has been affected.

I think that may be a good guess! This is procmail's logfile entry
when it fails:

procmail: Terminating prematurely whilst waiting for lockfile "<C0>-^<A0>-^shbowl/.lockmail"

Maybe there is a known problem with procmail and linux 1.3?

> Try recompiling, with the new kernel include files in place (ie
> /usr/include/{linux,asm} sees the files supplied with the kernel.
> See if that changes things.

No effect, thanks though.

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