[2312] in testers
Re: Zmail notify gone bad on Solaris?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Aug 2 08:48:37 1993
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 01 Aug 93 14:55:09 -0400.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 93 08:48:23 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
One thing which I noticed a long time ago with zmailnotify was that if
the pobox is locked (busy) when you run zmailnotify and get another mail
message, it seems to loop.... I never diagnosed the problem fully....
Another possibilty is if you are logged in on more than one machine,
zmailnotify tries to lock the status file to ensure that only one
zmailnotify is running.... Perhaps flock code and AFS on the sun is
broken?
Ezra
