Re: Fwd: Unable to deliver your message

Jason Rennie <[email protected]>:

> Did you encounter any problems while running ifile (e.g. lost mail -
> poor job of filtering)?  If so, please describe them here (copies of
> /tmp/ifile.info, ifilter.mh.info and irefile.mh.info and would be
> really helpful) :
>
> Somehow the ifile semaphore was left in a non-zero state, which
> caused all subsequent mail filtering to pile up, waiting for the
> semaphore.

what do you mean by "semaphore"?  what is the exact error message or
system state encountered?  you have to tell us something about your
configuration, because how should we know what is different in your
case from all the working installations?

what i don't understand is your statement about "hundreds of different
users".  currently ifile is commonly used by every user having his own
database, so this cannot be an issue in the standard situation.

> Really, ifile should only wait for other ifile processes USING THE
> SAME .idata FILE to terminate.  So it sounds like some locking file
> mechanism or named semaphore is called for.

this is already the case.  ifile uses a system-V type semaphores for
every database.  has been like this for years.

clemens