Subject: file locking problem

From: [email-masked] (Rick Venable)
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:59:41 GMT

We've recently installed pine under HP-UX 9.01 in an environment where
all home directories are NFS mounted using the automount daemon, and
are experiencing problems with pine during the 'Sending mail' phase of
it's operation.  Specifically, pine hangs when the quoted message is
displayed on all "remote" hosts in an unrecoverable fashion.  When using
the host where the home directory actually is, pine works okay *until*
it has been hung up on a remote host.  After that, invoking a second
copy of pine will force the first copy to give up it's file locks, and
the mail will be sent and saved in 'sent-mail'.  Starting a second copy
does *not* free up pine on any remote hosts.  Has anyone else experienced
this problem, and is there a solution or workaround?  Otherwise, we're
stuck with the HP-supplied "elm"...

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