From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 12:55:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D451914F3D for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from team7.cba (team7.cba [144.167.120.24]) by team7.cba (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16386; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:55:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:55:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Royce X-Sender: joe@team7.cba To: Thomas Keusch Cc: US FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: qpopper 2.53 + stale lockfiles In-Reply-To: <19990708205212.A2211@dante.visionaire.net> 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 Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote: > > 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. > > I don't think that is the lock file but the temp pop dropbox file that qpopper uses to copy each users mail spool. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message