Subject: mailbox lock

From: [email-masked] (Bruno de Oliveira Schneider - PosGrad)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 18:09:10 -0300

Hi,

I have seen somewhere that pine locks should be ignored after 5 minutes, but
every time I open pine, I get a msg like:

Can't open mailbox, access is readonly.

I think this is happening because I had to kill pine in my last session (last
friday).

What can I do to remove this lock? (I'm using SunOS).

Please, if you answer this send copy (cc) to my e-mail (below) as I won't be
reading this list.
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Bruno O. Schneider
e-mail: [email-masked]
Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~bruno

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From: Paul Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:09:15 -0400

Note: I rebooted the machine (a Sparc V) and the problem seems to be
temporarily eliminated. 

	Paul Mitchell

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From: Paul Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:20:13 -0400

> What can I do to remove this lock? (I'm using SunOS).

This has begun happening on our Solaris2.5 system today, as well.  Near as
I can tell, the affected users did not necessarily keep a session open.
I've searched the documentation for info on folder locking, and followed
up on the siggestions included there but have not found  a lock file,
either in /usr/mail, the users home directory, or /tmp (for that matter,
also /usr/spool/locks).  

Actually, I just postponed this message, and when I went to continue it,
I received the error as well.

Any help would be appreciated.

	Paul Mitchell