Subject: problems opening pine

From: Karl Asseily <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:54:59 -0400 (EDT)

I am using pine on MkLinux.

When I open pine, I get a message (at the inbox screen) saying that my
mailbox is opened by another process. Access is read-only.
However, of course, if I su to root and run pine, it works fine.
What can I do to restore pine to its normal functioning?

Thanks for any help

Karl

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Karl Asseily
E-Mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Carlos Robinson)
Date: 15 Sep 1996 04:30:16 GMT

Karl Asseily ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I am using pine on MkLinux.
: 
: When I open pine, I get a message (at the inbox screen) saying that my
: mailbox is opened by another process. Access is read-only.
: However, of course, if I su to root and run pine, it works fine.
: What can I do to restore pine to its normal functioning?
: 

You can run ps and grep for pine session and kill them.  You are only
looking for those with your user-id.

Pine and other mailer put a file lock on /var/spool/mail/$user.mailbox
file so others cannot use it while it's in use.

-carlos