brianw@hpausla.HP.COM (Brian Wallis) (06/21/89)
Bofore I start delving into the source of sendmail, can anyone tell me what the message Jun 21 14:35:21 AA12177: locked in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog means. I have had two mail items hang around on sendmail's queue for about 34 hours in the last week and get messages similar to the above after the initial log of the mail being sent and every half hour thereafter (presumeably when sendmail scans it's queue) until it is sent. I'm running sendmail 14.5 on HPUX 6.5 on a 9000/350 and 14.4.1.1 on HPUX A.B3.10 on a 9000/850, if thats relevant. Brian Wallis (Quality/Productivity Engineer) ___________________________________________________________________ Hewlett-Packard Australian Software Operation (ASO) //| ___ ___ P.O. Box 439, Ringwood, phone: // | | | | Victoria 3134, Australia. Inter. +613 879 1999 //--| !--| | | // | ___| |___| HP-UX Mail: brianw@hpausla.hp.com // ACSnet address: brianw@hpausla.oz HPdesk: Brian Wallis @ HPY200/UX
karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (06/21/89)
Sendmail logging a "locked" message means that there's an lfXXyyyyy file lying around, which in turn means that some other incarnation of sendmail is working on that particular queue item just now, e.g., a queue-runner. It should go away on its own when that sendmail finishes its attempts (either re-queued due to non-fatal delivery problems, or removed entirely if delivery is finished). You should make sure, however, that you remove all lf* files when your system boots; otherwise, the "locked" items will never be processed by anybody. --Karl