Did fetchmail do one of its fade outs leaving the file locked. I'd do a kill -TERM on it pid and see if the lock goes away.
-- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On 30 Apr 2002, Tomasz Kosinski wrote: > I am using exim 3.32, Debian testing. > > I have been using exim (together with fetchmail) with no problems for 6 > months or so. As of a few days ago, I am no longer able to send mail > from my machine (mostly single user, dial-up connection). For every > message I try to send out, the exim log shows first that the "Spool file > is locked (another process is handling this message)" and then that the > connection to the remote mailhost is timed out. > > I do not know what I have done to cause this problem, I haven't adjusted > any of the configuration files. I can't find which "Spool" is locked, or > which "process" is handling the message - the "ps" command shows no > process handling the message, and to my knowledge I haven't adjusted the > permissions on any files. > > This happens no matter which if the three accounts on the system tries > to send outgoing mail. One user reads mail with Postilion which uses > /var/mail/user as the mailbox and that file is now 14MB, but incoming > mail is handled normally. > > I can transfer mail between users on the system. > > I don't know how to diagnose or solve this problem - help needed and > much appreciated. > > Following are bits from the exim log, showing first successful internal > mail transfer, then an empty queue, then the queue getting locked. > > .....successful internal transfer.... > > 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tomasz > P=local S=447\ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 => tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D=localuser T=\ > local_delivery > 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 Completed > > .....empty queue..... > > 2002-04-30 21:53:02 Start queue run: pid=289 > 2002-04-30 21:53:02 End queue run: pid=289 > 2002-04-30 22:03:15 Start queue run: pid=390 -qf > 2002-04-30 22:03:15 End queue run: pid=390 -qf > > ....beginning of blocked queue.... > > 2002-04-30 22:05:36 172jUu-00006Z-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tomasz > P=local S=440\ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2002-04-30 22:08:01 Start queue run: pid=431 > 2002-04-30 22:08:01 172jUu-00006Z-00 Spool file is locked (another > process is handling this message) > 2002-04-30 22:08:01 End queue run: pid=431 > 2002-04-30 22:10:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.73]: > Connection timed out > 2002-04-30 22:15:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.74]: > Connection timed out > 2002-04-30 22:20:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.72]: > Connection timed out > > Thank you > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
