Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:38:16 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: chas <panda@peace.com.my>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailbox locked Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980401223739.24058A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980401092625.19285B-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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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
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