"Hand, Brian C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am getting the following error. It is preventing qmail from starting.
>> This is a clip from syslog.
>>
>> Jun 19 13:07:13 listserv qmail: [ID 748625 mail.alert] 961438033.590877
>> alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex
>>
>> What is the mutex and what do I do to get qmail started?
Run "make check" from the source directory. Try qmail-qsanity from
www.qmail.org.
"mutex" is /var/qmail/queue/lock/sendmutex, and it's used to ensure
that only one copy of qmail-send is running at any time. ("mutex" is
CS jargon for "mutually exclusive".)
-Dave
