Subject: PINE 3.95 / Linux 2.0.30 / lockfile problem

From: Lou Rinaldi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:06:00 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings,

Recently you answered a message on the pine discussion list for someone
who had a problem with their inbox because they had another Pine session
running and the lockfile prevented write access. Well, I get this message:

[Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]

And I am absolutely positive that there is no other pine process running
on the entire system. /var/lock, /var/mail, /var/spool/locks and
/usr/spool/locks (just a symlink anyhow) contain nothing. I killed every
process running under the uid in question (including the shell process),
then logged back in... to no avail. This has me absolutely baffled. 

Please reply via email ONLY as I am not subscribed to the pine-info list.
(or the usenet newsgroup)
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Lou Rinaldi <[email-masked]>
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:49:04 -0400

> (or the usenet newsgroup)

    Many people on numerous newsgroups are not enthusiastic about this
attitude.  If you aren't interested in sticking around long enough to
hear an answer, why should anybody take the time to hunt you down? 
These newsgroups are GROUPS, not private message services.  If you want
an answer from a newsgroup, you should at least have the courtesy to
subscribe long enough to wait for a response and not expect regular
participants to be at your personal beck and call.

Paul Bartlett                    <[email-masked]>
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