From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 23 9:50:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E13837B442 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f7NGoJf00157; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:50:19 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Jeremy Buckner" , Subject: RE: need help with mail server Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:48:14 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <001301c12bec$340e1960$0c0aa8c0@caz> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Person opinion here... did you drop to single user mode first? Not usre if it is required, but I recommend always dropping to single user mode when relocating /var/* files. I find that all the log files and system processes that are writing in there regularly (especially on busy systems) can create havoc during the relocation... and in your case could have resulted in orphaned lock files. so in single user mode (and you indicated you have done these steps) cd /var mkdir /usr/var mv /var/mail /usr/var/ ln -s /usr/var/mail . then restart never had a problem with things, and must have done this 3 or 4 dozen times. >Hello, I had my mail server run out of room in /var today. >No mail could be sent or received. (Don' laugh to hard) >Anyway to remedy the problem I moved everything from /var to >/usr/var and did the whole ln- s thing too. Now everyone can >send just fine but not receive. This is the error I get: > >-ERR [SYS/TEMP] maillock error 'Other lock error' (5) on >'/var/mail/usermailbox': No such file or directory (2) > >What is that and how do I fix it? I assume when the problem >occurred, a lock file of somesort was created to stop mail. >Maybe? > >Also I am running FreeBSD 4.3 with sendmail and qpopper. > >Thanks >Jeremy Buckner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message