From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 08:01:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2966137B419 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620B543F93 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7EF1DxT009873; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:01:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:01:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jim Freeze Message-ID: <20030814150111.GA33379@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030814095703.A28548@freeze.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030814095703.A28548@freeze.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: mutt and flock X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:01:15 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 14), Jim Freeze said: > I recently attempted to send an email with a large attachement. > During the send process, the disk ran out of space and I had to Ctl-C > out. After clearing space on the drive, whenever I send mail with > mutt, I get a message that it fails to flock sent-mail. > > I've looked and can't find a lock file or other artifact that would > be causing the problem. > > Can someone tell me how to clear the locked file? Try running fstat or lsof on the mailbox file; it's possible there's still a process running that has locked the file and isn't letting go. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com