From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 21:00:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19788 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19782 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA12682; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:30:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id PAA82250; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:30:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:30:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with mutt please Message-ID: <19990211153011.I71962@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990210232532.C686@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990210232532.C686@localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:25:32PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 23:25:32 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > I've started getting a warning/error when I start mutt, "Can't > dotlock mailbox; continue?". Everything seems to work OK whether > I answer ``y'' or ``n'' to the question, but what is causing it?. > > I've checked the perms and owner of /var/mail/marko and ~/mbox. > They seem OK. > > Anyone got any ideas? You probably have a dead lock file in your /var/mail directory (I think). I've looked through the code, but the exact name of the file doesn't jump out at me. Take a look with ls -al /var/mail and see if something obvious is there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message