Subject: mailbox/process locking in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Enrico Cantu)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:56:24 -0500

Hello,

I just built and installed Pine 3.95 on a MkLinux machine.  (MkLinux, for
those that aren't familiar, is a native Linux port to PowerPC Macs, but for
all intensive purposes of this question, treat it as an x86 Linux
equivalent)

When any user runs Pine, it gives the following message:
   [Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly]
But there is no obvious process contention present.

The permissions for /var/spool/mail are drwxrwxrwt, and each user owns
their own spool file.    I'm running sendmail 8.7.4 in daemon mode. (-bd)

The funny thing is that other mail programs, namely elm, work absolutely
fine.  So does popper, even clearing the spool when finished.

Help!

Many thanks,
Enrico

P.S.  Please cc:to my email address.

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Enrico Cantu <[email-masked]>   http://www.bchs.uh.edu/~ecantu/ 
Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences, 
University of Houston, 713.743.1517