Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:29:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbox locking in pine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807281327360.21490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980727193044.2085A-100000@gregory.dyn.ml.org>
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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
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