[rt-users] problem with fetchmail

[Danny Smith]

Hi James,

I might be able to help with the 'Lock creation failed' - with Cygwin
installed I ran into the same issue.  It's probably trying to create the
lock file in the current user's home directory (their cygwin home
directory). 

For instance on my test install with everything running as
Administrator, it's trying to create
c:\cygwin\home\Administrator\.fetchmail.pid, and that directory doesn't
exist by default.

It started working for me after I created the directory and sorted the
permissions.

Cheers,

Danny Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Smith [mailto:jsmith at PRESIDIO.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 June 2004 7:10 AM
> To: Rtuser; Paula McGraw
> Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] problem with fetchmail
> 
> 
> Here is what happens *here*...
> 
> With Cygwin installed (for just me *or* for all users, 
> fetchmail installed as part of cygwin or not), I get a "Lock 
> creation failed". If I move the Cygwin directory to another 
> name (like c:\cygwin-tmp), I get the "... not flushed" error. 
> 
> But! If I open up the Cygwin command box, it works.
> 
> I'm wondering if I need to go home, get back into bed, and 
> get out on the *other* side...
> 
> James H. Smith II NNCSE NNCDS
> Senior Systems Engineer
> First Call Response Center Team Lead
> The Presidio Corporation
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rtuser [mailto:rtuser at slynetworks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:43 PM
> To: Paula McGraw
> Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] problem with fetchmail
> 
> 
> Thanks for the pointer Paula.  Seems like that version of 
> cygwin did the trick.  It did require additional steps.
> 
> This is what I had to do to get fetchmail to work:
> 
> Note: If you're having the same problem (fetchmail: MDA 
> returned nonzero status 127) and don't want to re-install.  
> You may want to install CygWin and jump to steps 6 and 7.
> 
> 1.Uninstalled RT and all Common apps.
> 2.Installed CygWin to c:\cygwin\
> 3.Re-installed version 3.0.10 with defaults.
> 4.Logged in, changed SMTPFrom and queue address.
> 5.Gave 'Everyone' create ticket rights (Global)
> 6.Renamed c:\program 
> files\ourinternet\common\fetchmail\bin\cygwin1.dll TO 
> cygwin1.old 7.Copied C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll (version: 
> 1005.10.0.0  size: 1,153,417 bytes) TO c:\program 
> files\ourinternet\common\fetchmail\
> 8.Copied c:\program 
> files\ourinternet\common\fetchmail\rt-mailgate.conf.in to 
> rt-mailgate.conf 9.Made necessary changes to rt-mailgate.conf 
> 10.Changed ownership of to local administrator (logged in 
> user) 11.Restarted Request Tracker service 12.Ran the 
> RT-Mailgate shortcut in c:\program files\ourinternet\common\fetchmail\
> 13.Sent a test email to the general queue....and it started working. 
> The next lines were...
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon
> 1 message for q_general at mail.mydomain.com (661 octets). 
> reading message q_general at mail.mydomain.com:1 of 1 (661 
> octets)  flushed
> fetchmail: sleeping at Tue Jun 08 14:28:10 2004
> 
> Hope this helps other users out there fighting the same battle.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Oscar.
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