From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 1:52:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDE337B43E for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 01:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b115.otenet.gr [195.167.121.243]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4U8qhe07901; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:52:43 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4U8l6B03879; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:47:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:47:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: leemark@servesyndicate.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <20010530114706.F3735@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mercadolee@hotmail.com on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:00:00AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:00:00AM -0700, Lee Mark Mercado wrote: | on sendmail : | | i got a user that has email locked --- (user.lock) on my /var/mail dir | | how do i unlock ? Check for some stray popper process that has the mailbox locked. If you are sure that no popper is running and accessing the same mailbox (for instance, you have recently rebooted, and no such process could exist right now), you can do one of the following. a) If the user.lock file is the `old mailbox state', and the /var/mail/user file is empty, just move user.lock to /var/mail/user and fix permissions. b) If the user.lock file is empty, just remove the thing. It all depends on what POP server you are running, and what the /var/mail/user* files contain. --giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message