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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Matthias Fuhrmann <Ma...@stud.uni-hannover.de> on 2006/07/05 22:03:20 UTC

Re: Inappropriate ioctl for device

> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>
[...]
>
> are some of your partitions mounted via nfs? if so, try using in your
> local.cf:
> lock_method nfssafe
>
> this should the default value if you didnt set "lock_method flock" which
> is not nfs safe.

> i can reproduces the message, when i access a nfs mounted directory
> using:
> lsattr -d /nfs-mounted-directory
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device

> so investigate the nfs mounts on your system. hopefully they
> exists, so we come closer to a solution :)

didnt got an answer by Kaushal yet; so can anyone confirm this behavior of
db files in a nfs mounted directory?

regards,
Matthias