I have a CRON script that emails daily using mutt.
This script has begun to fail, and I now get an email from cron stating:
Can't dotlock /root/sent. Couldn't lock /root/sent Could not send the message.
The wierd thing is that I get this email from cron fine, but mutt can't send email.
The cron job is run by root, so I don't think this is a permissions issue.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Best Answer
Is there a /root/sent file/directory/link/other existent ? Is there an other process which take the lock for a while ? Check with
lsof -n | grep /root/sent. The rights are good on this file ?