Hey all,Stray lock files from crashing, probably due to low memory - guessing from what others have reported:
One of the mailgate boxes fell offline for about 8 hours, and when
it came back up, /var/log/mail has a lot of entries like the stuff below:
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-October/017593.html
Bryan
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spamd[9185]: [Cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_*
R/W] lock failed: File exists_
- Last output repeated 2 times -
spamd[9141]: [clean message (-4.7/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 299.7 seconds,
3867 bytes._
spamd[9149]: [Cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_*
R/W] lock failed: File exists_
spamd[9143]: [clean message (-4.8/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 282.5 seconds,
3302 bytes._
spamd[9157]: [clean message (-4.8/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 251.4 seconds,
5808 bytes._
spamd[9185]: [clean message (-113.2/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 172.9
seconds, 5330 bytes._
spamd[9184]: [clean message (-109.9/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 174.7
seconds, 2122 bytes._
spamd[9186]: [clean message (-113.2/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 174.5
seconds, 5246 bytes._
spamd[9149]: [clean message (-109.8/5.0) for filter] 1000 in 275.2
seconds, 4859 bytes._I know it's kind of slow - Athlon XP 1600, 256mb DDR RAM, 4gb IDE disk -
but I'm concerned about the "lock failed: File exists_ " errors. WHat do
they mean?Thanks! :)
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