From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 13:31:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07877 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07696 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA12538; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:29:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbox locking in pine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question. How does pine lock a mailbox? I have searched high and low > for a lock file, but have found none. (Supposed to be > /tmp/.\usr\spool\mail\xxxx or so the man page would have me believe). At > any rate, I keep getting 'Can't open mailbox lock' messages. I think it just dumps a .######.## file in /tmp. I'm looking there at the moment and I have ownership of one. The other sysadmin is running pine and not surprisingly has ownership of another such file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message