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2006-09-07T22:45:49 procmail lock failure:

My procmail runs every 2 min and gathers an mbox (over nfs) from one box and delivers maildir on another box. The procmail-runner uses lockfile-create/touch/remove to supposedly protect from repeated processing of the same mbox contents, but that lock failed somehow. Cron jobs piled up, and the same message got delivered dozens of times. Every message was going though spambayes, which helped throttle things.

So thanks, fdupes author and ubuntu packagers, for helping me get everything cleaned up in about 10 minutes. I just ran "fdupes -f .path.to.affected.folder/cur | xargs rm" a few times, slowed the procmail down until I feel like looking into that problem, and everything's fine again.

I used to use fslint a lot, but fdupes showed up first in a package search.

I'm also using delicious now (http://del.icio.us/drewpca) since bloglines screwed up and is hiding my hundreds of saved articles. Delicious looks like a better way to gather articles, and they're probably less likely to screw up on their core function than bloglines is to screw up one of its side functions.

Bloglines, if you at least send me the links to all the articles I had marked as keep-new, I'll post an update here saying that you did.

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