From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 0:30:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pasha.anand.org (pasha.anand.org [199.103.176.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 269FA14DC9 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 00:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: (qmail 43960 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jul 1999 07:30:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:30:34 +0300 From: Anand Buddhdev To: Thomas Keusch Cc: US FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: qpopper 2.53 and stale lock files Message-ID: <19990709103034.H43156@africaonline.co.ke> References: <19990708134727.B614@dante.visionaire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <19990708134727.B614@dante.visionaire.net>; from Thomas Keusch on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:47:27PM +0200 Organisation: Africa Online Ltd, P O Box 63017, Nairobi, Kenya X-Phone: +254-2-243775 X-WWW-Homepage: http://www.anand.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:47:27PM +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote: The .thomas.pop is not only a lock file, but is also the file into which mail is copied before being sent to a client. qpopper is compiled by default to leave that file in place. This is so that it can serve as an indicator for when mail was last collected by a client. It is normal and nothing to worry about. If, for some reason, you want qpopper to remove these files, then you have to edit some source code and then recompile it. > 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)? -- Anand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message