Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:24:47 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, drwho <drwho@xnet.com> Subject: Re: Help with mutt please Message-ID: <19990211222447.A488@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990211153011.I71962@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 03:30:11PM %2B1030 References: <19990210232532.C686@localhost> <19990211153011.I71962@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 03:30:11PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. > It was because my home directory was owned by root. I'd created a new user because, despite several hours reading Costales I couldn't get sendmail to change the Sender address (my login name was different to my email name). Obviously I did mkdir as root and forgot to chown it. Doh!. Thanks for your help. > 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 -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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