Strange messages with 2.0.31-pre7

Michael H. Warfield (mhw@alcove.wittsend.com)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:34:32 -0400 (EDT)

Just compiled up 2.0.31-pre7 on one of my systems and noticed two
things very disturbing.

1) Qmail, the Mail Transport Agent, failed to even start up. Haven't
finished tracking down the error messages associated with that one yet.

2) While I was investigating Qmail, I noticed the following error
messages in syslog:

Aug 18 17:01:53 phoenix ftpd[317]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:53 phoenix ftpd[147]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:54 phoenix ftpd[317]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:54 phoenix ftpd[147]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:55 phoenix ftpd[317]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:55 phoenix ftpd[147]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:56 phoenix ftpd[317]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:56 phoenix ftpd[147]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument
Aug 18 17:01:57 phoenix ftpd[317]: sleeping: flock of pid file failed: Invalid argument

Switched back to 2.0.30 and everything was back to normal. Qmail came
right up and no ftpd error messages...

I build 2.0.31-pre7 by running make xconfig and then loading the
config from the 2.0.30 build and then saving it and building the 2.0.31-pre7
so I don't think I changed anything from one build to the next. Mandatory
locking IS enabled in both builds. Something broken in flock would account
for the Qmail failure, but I still need to confirm that from the error logs.

Regards,
Mike

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