Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:30:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with mutt please Message-ID: <19990211153011.I71962@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990210232532.C686@localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:25:32PM %2B0000 References: <19990210232532.C686@localhost>
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On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 23:25:32 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > I've started getting a warning/error when I start mutt, "Can't > dotlock mailbox; continue?". Everything seems to work OK whether > I answer ``y'' or ``n'' to the question, but what is causing it?. > > I've checked the perms and owner of /var/mail/marko and ~/mbox. > They seem OK. > > Anyone got any ideas? You probably have a dead lock file in your /var/mail directory (I think). I've looked through the code, but the exact name of the file doesn't jump out at me. Take a look with ls -al /var/mail and see if something obvious is there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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