Subject: Pine Locking

From: Terzo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:58:02 -0600 (CST)

I'm geting the error that say Inbox is locked by another process.

That process does not exist.

Here's what i have tried.

1) echo "" > /var/mail/spool/terzo    emptyped out my mail
2) rm /var/mail/spool/terzo  and recreated with correct permission(root
acces)
3) rm mail directory
4) and even reboot the box... ( i hate doing this)  

there is no terzo.lock in the spool directory.  i'm assuming that the lock
was placed using flock.  How do i get rid of that lock?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

thanks.

terzo

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				   Terzo
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				 Wku-Linux	
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From: Terzo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:20:12 -0600 (CST)

> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Sorry to bother you.. persistence pays off sometimes.. got to checking my
logs and was getting the error

linux pine: Mailbox lock file /tmp/.302.29045 open failure: Permission
denied

well got to snooping around.. my user couldn't create the file .302.29045 

so i got to looking and the permissions on temp were not set up properly?
that puzzles me... but then again i have to give sudo rights out to a few
people where chmod is on of those commands they can use.

so i'm going to be doing investigations.

thanks for the help though.

terzo