Hello, What is the proper solution to the problem below the sig? For a similar issue, Phillip Guenther, procmail's maintainer, at <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail/1623/match=error+writing+var+spool+mail> suggests "chmod g+s /usr/bin/procmail", but I'm reluctant. There are also suggestions that in this configuration the packager must make certain that fcntl locking is in force, but I DUNNO. Full disclosure: postfix is version 2.3, compiled locally. Procmail is invoked with by postfix via "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail". Thanks in advance for your time. rgds/ldv procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_2VF.HWivEB.mail.texoma.net" procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/vaden" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/vaden" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock From dbmail-bounces at dbmail.org Wed Jul 19 07:28:55 2006 Subject: RE: [Dbmail] Delete accounts Folder: /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail/vaden -rw-rw---- 1 vaden mail 224051703 Jul 19 08:42 /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden at mail ~]$ procmail -v procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 Copyright (c) 1990-2001, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb at cuci.nl> Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther <guenther at sendmail.com> Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to: <procmail-users at procmail.org> And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to: <procmail-users-request at procmail.org> Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc It may be writable by your primary group Your system mailbox: /var/mail/vaden n.b.: original installer probably didn't realize initial /var size was too limiting: [vaden at mail ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 264G 44G 207G 18% / /dev/sda1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 9.9G 5.8G 3.7G 62% /var [vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var total 180 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 08:00 account drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 cache drwxr-xr-x 3 netdump netdump 4096 Mar 8 18:54 crash drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 db drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 empty drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 ftp drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Apr 19 21:01 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 local drwxrwxr-x 5 root lock 4096 Jul 19 00:07 lock drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 19 00:07 log drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 14 2005 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 14 2005 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Dec 14 2005 named drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 nis drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 preserve drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 12 18:19 run drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 spool drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 2 21:25 tmp drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 tux drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 5 2006 www drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 2005 yp [vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool total 388 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 anacron drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 4096 Dec 14 2005 at drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Jun 11 09:55 clientmqueue drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 18:52 cron drwx--x--- 3 root sys 4096 Jan 11 2006 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 lpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 mail -> /mail-spools/ drwx------ 2 root mail 278528 Jun 22 18:39 mqueue drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 postfix drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Dec 31 2005 repackage drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 07:59 samba drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 Dec 31 2005 squid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 21:35 up2date drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 vbox drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 1 17:57 work [vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 /var/spool/mail -> /mail-spools/ [vaden at mail ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/procmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 80428 Feb 21 2005 /usr/bin/procmail You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden at mail ~]$