Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailbox locked Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331112053.5583O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331174351.16621A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Dean Hollister wrote:
> 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.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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