From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18023 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2002 16:22:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17977 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2002 16:22:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.comcast.net) (24.153.64.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 16:22:18 -0000 Received: from althea.tishler.net (bgp572446bgs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.6.197]) by mtaout45-01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built Feb 6 2002)) with SMTP id <0GTJ00LWIET45F@mtaout45-01.icomcast.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:22:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by althea.tishler.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:28:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:41:00 -0000 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: procmail locking problem warning (was Re: procmail on cygwin) In-reply-to: <20020324055031.A16638055@IBM973237G> To: Cygwin Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: Cygwin , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020325162825.GB2048@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <017101c181a0$b47a29e0$738ffe0c@pwork> <20011210134958.A2088@dothill.com> <20020322142523.GB2316@tishler.net> <20020324055031.A16638055@IBM973237G> X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg01420.txt.bz2 Greg, On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:50:32AM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > > Occasionally, I would get errors such as the following in my procmail.log > > file: > > > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jt" > > procmail: Truncated file to former size > > Mmh. I see one such error in my procmail log. I guess that you are lucky then or your MUA only uses dotlocking (i.e., does not use fcntl). What MUA are you using? My MUA is mutt 1.3.24i and it uses both fcntl() and dotlocking. > > I have temporarily "fixed" the problem by commented out the "#define > > NOfcntl_lock" in autoconf.h while I wade through the obfuscated procmail > > coding style. > > An alternative would be not to look at your mail while > downloading it. IMO, the above is unacceptable -- it defeats the whole purpose of running fetchmail as a daemon. > Is there any reason for not crossposting your message to a > procmail list, eg procmail-dev@procmail.org or > procmail@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE? Just laziness. > The number of people on both > procmail and cygwin lists must be very small, but the procmail > developers (ie Philip Guenther) should be made aware of the > autoconf problem. Agreed, but I give no ETA. Although, note that this is important to me so it will probably happen sooner rather than later. Nevertheless, you are welcome to beat me to it. If so, then please CC me so I won't duplicate the effort. Thanks, Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18020 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2002 16:22:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17976 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2002 16:22:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.comcast.net) (24.153.64.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 16:22:18 -0000 Received: from althea.tishler.net (bgp572446bgs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.6.197]) by mtaout45-01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built Feb 6 2002)) with SMTP id <0GTJ00LWIET45F@mtaout45-01.icomcast.net> for cygwin@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:22:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by althea.tishler.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:28:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:52:00 -0000 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: procmail locking problem warning (was Re: procmail on cygwin) In-reply-to: <20020324055031.A16638055@IBM973237G> To: Cygwin Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: Cygwin , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20020325162825.GB2048@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <017101c181a0$b47a29e0$738ffe0c@pwork> <20011210134958.A2088@dothill.com> <20020322142523.GB2316@tishler.net> <20020324055031.A16638055@IBM973237G> X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg01421.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20020325085200.KLXr01cdGuSqmxGOnTNQLckFubya_JhWXAqxr_MjeM4@z> Greg, On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:50:32AM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > > Occasionally, I would get errors such as the following in my procmail.log > > file: > > > procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jt" > > procmail: Truncated file to former size > > Mmh. I see one such error in my procmail log. I guess that you are lucky then or your MUA only uses dotlocking (i.e., does not use fcntl). What MUA are you using? My MUA is mutt 1.3.24i and it uses both fcntl() and dotlocking. > > I have temporarily "fixed" the problem by commented out the "#define > > NOfcntl_lock" in autoconf.h while I wade through the obfuscated procmail > > coding style. > > An alternative would be not to look at your mail while > downloading it. IMO, the above is unacceptable -- it defeats the whole purpose of running fetchmail as a daemon. > Is there any reason for not crossposting your message to a > procmail list, eg procmail-dev@procmail.org or > procmail@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE? Just laziness. > The number of people on both > procmail and cygwin lists must be very small, but the procmail > developers (ie Philip Guenther) should be made aware of the > autoconf problem. Agreed, but I give no ETA. Although, note that this is important to me so it will probably happen sooner rather than later. Nevertheless, you are welcome to beat me to it. If so, then please CC me so I won't duplicate the effort. Thanks, Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/