Subject: HELP! I'm locked out!

From: Dolores Burdick <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:34:06 -0500 (EST)

One of my folders has been in a READONLY mode for days and days now;
there is a lock on it, and that means I can't even DELETE it!
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how one gets out of this??
    --Dolores

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Dec 1997 17:50:53 +0100

>> "DB" == Dolores Burdick <[email-masked]> writes:

DB> One of my folders has been in a READONLY mode for days and days
DB> now; there is a lock on it, and that means I can't even DELETE it!
DB> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how one gets out of this??

At the prompt, say

   ps ax | grep pine

If there is more than one instance of pine running, kill it using the
pid ps gives you. Otherwise contact your sysadmin.

Robin

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Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.