From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 23 11:51:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from user.nunanet.com (user.nunanet.com [199.247.47.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB9F37B408 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmason@nunanet.com) Received: from nunanet.com (nia.nunanet.com [199.247.47.10]) by user.nunanet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA11418; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B855F54.4468F7B8@nunanet.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:53:56 -0500 From: Marcel Mason Reply-To: mmason@nunanet.com Organization: Nunanet Communications Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Buckner Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with mail server References: <001301c12bec$340e1960$0c0aa8c0@caz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Just was there & did that, ran into probs and got the following from another kind soul to help me out :-) unplug server from network (can be done while connected but adds extra steps) kill -9 `cat /where/ever/sendmailpid/is/sendmail.pid` mv /location/of/popper /location/of/popper.hold ps ax to look for any left over pop or sendmail processes - kill them mv /current/mail/dir/* /new/mail/dir set up symlink so it all works restart sendmail, rename popper.hold back to popper Bob's yer uncle, or at least it worked for me M Jeremy Buckner wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message