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System error 17 on file

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:04 pm
by tdelov
Any Ideas about this error?
IT has occurs regularly in my error logs.

REPORT IMAP Server Da(IMAP Server Pr) 02.21.07 00:11:04
[OM 821] System error 17 on file /var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck
File Name: /var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck


[root@scalix11]# stat /var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck
File: `/var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 49165 Links: 1
Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 101/ scalix) Gid: ( 101/ scalix)
Access: 2007-02-01 00:17:37.000000000 +1100
Modify: 2007-02-01 00:17:37.000000000 +1100
Change: 2007-02-01 00:17:37.000000000 +1100
[root@scalix11]# ls -l /var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck
-rw-rw---- 1 scalix scalix 0 Feb 1 00:17 /var/opt/scalix/s1/s/user/g00003g/000002g.lck

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:56 am
by gren
Hi,

System error 17 is EEXIST. This message is generated when an attempt is made to
create a lock file but it has already been created. You can safely ignore this message.

Regards,
Gren.