Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:28:24 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailbox locked Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980401092625.19285B-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980401161908.009ef270@peace.com.my>
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I'm coming into this rather late, but have you looked for any possible
permutation of locking in /var/mail/$USER? Like a "." lock or "~" lock?
If you get really desperate you can use lsof to see if any programs are
holding the file open. Perhaps there's a zombie process grabbing it?
Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com
----
"I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on" -DB
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, chas wrote:
> At 09:43 AM 4/1/98 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote:
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>We have a user who's mailbox has been locked somehow. I need to clear the
> >>>lock but cannot locate a lock file anywhere. Where would I expect to find
> >>>it?
>
> >> A POP locked mailbox? Check for a file /var/mail/${USERNAME}.pop.lock (or
> >> .${USERNAME}.pop.lock).
> >>
> >> The campus Solaris POP server has this problem constantly. They finally
> >> created a script called 'unpop' that kills this file.
> >
> >Hmmmm.... Nothing like this is present...
> >
> >Elm, and Pine both report mailbox is read-only...
>
> Not sure I can help you since you mention Elm/Pine but
> I've suffered similar locked mailboxes when the
> user's mail client chokes and crashes whilst
> downloading/decoding a very large attachment or
> many messages. I attribute the subsequent "mailbox
> locked" errors to the socket connection not being
> closed in an orderly manner.
>
> In such circumstances, I've checked for lock files but
> found none. Usual cure is to restart the POP server
> and inetd but that rarely works... so I resort to the
> usual cure-all : reboot. (obviously it would be nice
> to not have to do this and disrupt all the other users
> so I'm all ears for surefire ways of curing this : one
> user in particular managed to lock his mail box very
> frequently)
>
> chas
>
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