Subject: Does Pine create /var/spool/username.lock files?

From: Robert Larmon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:51:59 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Occasionally, a user will leave multiple Pine sessions running for a long
period of time, and I'm trying to figure out if Pine is creating a .lock
file or not.  The lock file will be username.lock, but the owner is root.
After the .lock file is created, sendmail locks up after multiple emails
are sent to the user (I think 10), thus halting all mail traffic to/from
that host.

Is Pine doing this, or does Sendmail have something to do with this?
Anyone have any similar problems?  Any ideas, thoughts, etc?

Thanks,

Robert

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From: Robert Larmon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:00 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Addendum: the relevant directory is /var/spool/mail, not /var/spool.  My
apologies.

Robert

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:19:07 -0800 (PST)

*** Robert Larmon ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) Occasionally, a user will leave multiple Pine sessions running for a long
:) period of time, and I'm trying to figure out if Pine is creating a .lock
:) file or not.  The lock file will be username.lock, but the owner is root.
:) After the .lock file is created, sendmail locks up after multiple emails
:) are sent to the user (I think 10), thus halting all mail traffic to/from
:) that host.

It is my understanding that Pine creates locks files, when rewriting the
inbox. Did you chage the protection of /var/spool/mail to 1777?

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Robert Larmon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:22:16 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> inbox. Did you chage the protection of /var/spool/mail to 1777?

The protection is 1777 (and always has been, I'm pretty sure)

Robert