Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:44:16 -0500 From: Paul Stewart <pstewart@kawartha.com> To: Mike Harshbarger <mharsh@fsr.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leftover qpopper drop files Message-ID: <366DABC0.AA545BC5@kawartha.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981208120652.9822E-100000@archer.fsr.net>
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All our users have a .pop file here but none of them get any errors... is this unique or the way it's supposed to be? :) Paul Mike Harshbarger wrote: > > I've recently moved my mail server from a Solaris x86 platform over to > FreeBSD. I *love* the performance improvement, but I've run into an > irritating qpopper problem. As a friend put it: "Oh, you've got the new > qpopperdropper!" :) > > I've ran qpopper 2.53 on both systems. Qpopper creates a temporary drop > file named /var/mail/.username.pop. On Solaris, this file was deleted > after use. They hang around in FreeBSD. If a new customer happens to pick > the same username as a old, deleted account, they'll get this error when > they try to pop their mail: > > -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? > > And then I get to jump in and either delete or chown the leftover > temporary drop file. > > I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, or if I've caused it > with a compile-time option or an ignorant filesystem choice. Right now, > /var/mail is a symlink pointing at a directory in a ccd array mounted with > the 'noatime' option. (noatime is a holdover when I was experimenting with > inn on this ccd, and I'm thinking I should get rid of it) > > It'd be easy for me to cron a script that would chown the temporary files > to the correct userid or simply delete ancient ones, but I don't want to > if I can fix this problem another way. > > Thanks in advance, > > ___ ___ ___ > | __/ __|_ _| Mike Harshbarger, First Step Internet > | _|\__ \| | System & Network Administrator > |_| |___/___| (208) 882-8869 / 1-888-676-6377 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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