From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 11:52:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whore.visionaire.net (visionaire.ping.de [195.37.123.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6172715055 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@visionaire.ping.de) Received: from dante.visionaire.net (mail@dante.visionaire.net [192.168.208.42]) by whore.visionaire.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA28688 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:52:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thomas@visionaire.ping.de) Received: from thomas by dante.visionaire.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 112JHI-0000Zm-00; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:52:12 +0200 Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:52:12 +0200 From: Thomas Keusch To: US FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: qpopper 2.53 + stale lockfiles Message-ID: <19990708205212.A2211@dante.visionaire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I just installed qpopper2.53 on an AMD 386DX40 machine w/ 16mb RAM, running FreeBSD 3.2R. After the mail has been fetched from this host and qpopper is done, it doesn't rm the lockfile: boxx# l /var/mail total 8264 -rw------- 1 thomas mail 0 Jul 8 11:48 .thomas.pop -rw------- 1 annette users 868808 Jul 8 10:44 annette -rw------- 1 thomas users 0 Jul 8 11:48 thomas Do other users experience the same problem? Might it be because it is such a small box (though it isn't loaded much)? If mail is fetched again, qpopper does not notice the already existing lock, at least there is nothing in the logs and the fetch works fine. Is this a FreeBSD specific problem (someone told me FreeBSD, or *BSD, has some problems with flock())? I had the same version of qpopper running on Linux (on the same box) for some months, which worked flawlessly. Any help appreciated. thomas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message