Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-30 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:22, Dominic Raferd wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 09:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > wrote: > >> On 06.12.18 15:45, Dominic Raferd wrote: >> >I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, >> >> I think I have it working now. The problem was not post

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:40, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> On 06.12.18 15:45, Dominic Raferd wrote: > >> >I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, > > >On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 09:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > >wrote: > >> hmmm, why? > >> maybe there's other way to

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.12.18 15:45, Dominic Raferd wrote: >I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 09:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: hmmm, why? maybe there's other way to implement your requirement On 07.12.18 10:22, Dominic Raferd wrote: The use case

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-07 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 09:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 06.12.18 15:45, Dominic Raferd wrote: > >I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, > > hmmm, why? > maybe there's other way to implement your requirement > I think I have it working now. The problem was

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.12.18 15:45, Dominic Raferd wrote: I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, hmmm, why? maybe there's other way to implement your requirement -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertisi

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Dec 2018, at 12:13, Dominic Raferd wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 16:37, Bill Cole < postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: On 6 Dec 2018, at 11:15, Dominic Raferd wrote: Have you verified that the inode number changes? no, I will check how to do this 'ls -li' is your f

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 16:37, Bill Cole < postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > On 6 Dec 2018, at 11:15, Dominic Raferd wrote: > > >> Have you verified that the inode number changes? > >> > > > > > > no, I will check how to do this > > > 'ls -li' is your friend. > Thanks, I have now

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Dec 2018, at 11:15, Dominic Raferd wrote: >> Have you verified that the inode number changes? >> > > > no, I will check how to do this 'ls -li' is your friend.

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Dominic Raferd
Thanks for the swift response - see below. On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 16:10, Wietse Venema wrote: > Dominic Raferd: > > I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, > but > > it is failing to trigger when postfix adds an incoming mail to the file. > > Possible causes: > > -

Re: Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Dominic Raferd: > I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, but > it is failing to trigger when postfix adds an incoming mail to the file. Possible causes: - Your file system does not set the file mtime when Postfix appends to the file. Fix: don't disable mtime update

Local delivery to mbox / inode issue

2018-12-06 Thread Dominic Raferd
I am using incrond to monitor an mbox file (in /var/mail) for changes, but it is failing to trigger when postfix adds an incoming mail to the file. (It triggers fine however if I touch the file.) I may be barking up the wrong tree but I wonder if this is because instead of merely appending to the