Subject: Re: Help! - locked mailboxes

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:08:23 -0800

Was the protection of /tmp changed recently?  It should be protected 1777.
A global readonly suggests that either /tmp is inaccessible, or (SVR4
systems) that the statd/lockd daemons collapsed.  Since you say NFS isn't
involved, I would tend to suspect /tmp since statd/lockd are NFS critters.

On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Tony Pajas wrote:

> I'm using Pine 3.91 on Solaris 2.5.  For some reason, *all* of my users
> inboxes (500 of them) are suddenly being flagged as locked/read-only
> when accessed by Pine.  Users are unable to delete messages.  Access by
> Eudora is normal with users able to remove mail from their inboxes.
> Inspection of the /var/mail dir -> all appears normal.  This is a local
> dir, not a NFS.
>
> What's happening here?
>
> Thanks, tony pajas
>
>

-- Mark --

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From: Tony Pajas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 17:58:37 -0800

What's happening here?

Thanks, tony pajas