Subject: Pine under Linux 1.1.59 - Folder Lock/Readonly

From: [email-masked]
Date: 24 Jun 1995 01:18:59 GMT

Sorry if this is a FAQ, I run Pine under Linux (Slackware 2.1.0) and am having
a problem (that I probably cause <ughhh!>)...

Yes that dreaded "Folder is Readonly...Folder is Locked...by another Process".
Nothing seems to fix this problem, which only affects regular users (not root).

Shutting down and rebooting doesn't fix it, and I cannot seem to find any
lock files.  The man-page for "pine" (man pine) refers to:

Per Folder Lock Files:   /tmp .\usr\spool\mail\****

(sorry if I am a complete idiot, but I don't even understand this convention of
 referring to a file <or path?> with the slashes going in the other direction???
 What does that mean?  I don't find any files other than the mail files for each
 username in /usr/spool/mail (symbolic link to /var/spool/mail)... and I don't
 understand what is meant by this switch in *slashes*.  Isn't that DOS type
 slashes ?)

Any help would be appreciated!  As I mentioned - I probably did something
stupid as root (ooops! Sysadmin BOOT CAMP here :-)
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Alan Spicer -- [email-masked], [email-masked]
                 http://www1.aksi.net/~aspicer
                 http://www.satelnet.org/~aspicer
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From: [email-masked]
Date: 26 Jun 1995 03:44:32 GMT

* * I never heard from anybody on this, someone must have encountered this
     Folder Lock/Read Only problem on some platform ?  I still have been
     unable to find the problem.  (read below)  cannot find lockfiles, and
     cannot find anything obvious to me (permissions, etc... wrong).

     Any help Appreciated!  Email To: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Doug Johnson)
Date: 26 Jun 1995 14:14:14 GMT

I had this happen to me once.  What had happened is I had more than one
pine session running at a time and the first had control of the folder.
I exited both and still could not get control back till I killed the pid.
Good luck.

Doug
[email-masked]

[email-masked]@aksi.net wrote:
% * * I never heard from anybody on this, someone must have encountered this
%      Folder Lock/Read Only problem on some platform ?  I still have been
%      unable to find the problem.  (read below)  cannot find lockfiles, and
%      cannot find anything obvious to me (permissions, etc... wrong).

%      Any help Appreciated!  Email To: [email-masked]

% In <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]@aksi.net writes:
% >Sorry if this is a FAQ, I run Pine under Linux (Slackware 2.1.0) and am having
% >a problem (that I probably cause <ughhh!>)...
% >
% >Yes that dreaded "Folder is Readonly...Folder is Locked...by another Process".
% >Nothing seems to fix this problem, which only affects regular users (not root).
% >
% >Shutting down and rebooting doesn't fix it, and I cannot seem to find any
% >lock files.  The man-page for "pine" (man pine) refers to:
% >
% >Per Folder Lock Files:   /tmp .\usr\spool\mail\****
% >
% >(sorry if I am a complete idiot, but I don't even understand this convention of
% > referring to a file <or path?> with the slashes going in the other direction???
% > What does that mean?  I don't find any files other than the mail files for each
% > username in /usr/spool/mail (symbolic link to /var/spool/mail)... and I don't
% > understand what is meant by this switch in *slashes*.  Isn't that DOS type
% > slashes ?)
% >
% >Any help would be appreciated!  As I mentioned - I probably did something
% >stupid as root (ooops! Sysadmin BOOT CAMP here :-)
% >                         ------- ----  ----
% >                 ==============================
% >Alan Spicer -- [email-masked], [email-masked]
% >                 http://www1.aksi.net/~aspicer
% >                 http://www.satelnet.org/~aspicer
% >                 BBS3059387088Linux3059383047
% >                 ==============================
% >

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