Subject: Problems with locking on Linux

From: [email-masked] (Mika Ruikka)
Date: 19 May 1996 16:48:51 GMT

Hi,

We just compiled pine 3.9.3 to out Linux-system, and there seems to be 
some kind of problems with lock-files.
When user runs pine, it says :

	Error creating /var/spool/mail/username.lock...

This only exist, if user has something in his mailbox.
Older version of pine (3.9.1) still works fine without complaints...

I would appreciate any help

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:43:37 -0700

Set directory protection on /var/spool/mail to 1777, the way it's supposed
to be.  You probably have it set to 775 in a mistaken notion that this
"enhances security".

It did not "work fine without complaints" in 3.91.  It didn't complain; it
just didn't lock the mailbox, leaving it vulnerable to being trashed if
mail was delivered while Pine was updating the mailbox.

> Older version of pine (3.9.1) still works fine without complaints...

-- Mark --

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