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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:01:12 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mutt and flock
Message-ID:  <20030814150111.GA33379@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030814095703.A28548@freeze.org>
References:  <20030814095703.A28548@freeze.org>

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In the last episode (Aug 14), Jim Freeze said:
> I recently attempted to send an email with a large attachement.
> During the send process, the disk ran out of space and I had to Ctl-C
> out. After clearing space on the drive, whenever I send mail with
> mutt, I get a message that it fails to flock sent-mail.
> 
> I've looked and can't find a lock file or other artifact that would
> be causing the problem.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to clear the locked file?

Try running fstat or lsof on the mailbox file; it's possible there's
still a process running that has locked the file and isn't letting go.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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