From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 1 06:38:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09134 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 06:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09112 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 06:38:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA24107; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:38:16 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:38:16 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: spork cc: chas , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mailbox locked In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, spork wrote: > 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? No need. It turned out to be a user exceeding his file quota... Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | | Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message