On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, mikepolniak wrote: > On 08:56 Sat 15 Feb , Mr R A Mercer wrote: > > Whenever an email gets delivered to my inbox I get the following error in > > the procmail log > > > > ## procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/ram.lock" > > > > any ideas why procmail is having problems creating the lock file? > > > Have not had this error myself but the man page says it... > > Can only occur if you specify some real weird (and illegal) lockfilenames > or if the lockfile could not be created because of > insufficient permissions or nonexistent subdirectories.
Thanks, my /var/spool/mail directory was not writable by the group mail, changing that removed the error. Cheers Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
