Subject: Read only

From: "Andrew C. Stringer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:19:56 -0800 (PST)

Suddenly I am informed that my folder: inbox(readonly).  Why is this?
What can be done to switch it back?  I suppose it must be a server bug.

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Andy Stringer
Harborside Web Development Group
[email-masked]

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Feb 1998 07:30:50 +0100

>> Andrew C Stringer writes:

 Andrew> Suddenly I am informed that my folder: inbox(readonly).  Why
 Andrew> is this?  What can be done to switch it back?  I suppose it
 Andrew> must be a server bug.

I suppose, another pine process is keeping a lock on your inbox
file. Have a look, ie 

ps -ux | grep pine ; kill <PID>
ps -ef | ...

If this doesn't fit, look for the lock-file ... have a glance at the
tech-notes about folder locking.

hth, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch, Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH.
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles
closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some
misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Feb 1998 12:53:51 +0100

>> "Norbert" == Norbert Koch <[email-masked]> writes:

Norbert> I suppose, another pine process is keeping a lock on your
Norbert> inbox file. Have a look, ie
Norbert> ps -ux | grep pine ; kill <PID> 

killall pine -> finished

Norbert> If this doesn't fit, look for the lock-file ... have a glance
Norbert> at the tech-notes about folder locking.

Totally arcane.

What a day...

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
<KRUZIFIX mode="head_down"> *S*A*T*A*N* ROOLEZ </KRUZIFIX> (D. Moehwald)

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Feb 1998 13:14:38 +0100

>> Robin S Socha writes:

Hi Robin,

>> Andrew C Stringer writes:

[all that stuff about read-only]

 Robin> killall pine -> finished

Thanks for the info :-) But that's for Linux, do you know whether all
those other 'well supported' Un*x systems provide the command?

 Norbert> If this doesn't fit, look for the lock-file ... have a
 Norbert> glance at the tech-notes about folder locking.

 Robin> Totally arcane.

<*grin*>

 Robin> What a day...

yeah ... hey man, are you back from London?

Cheers, norbert.