From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 2:20:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f123.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CF437B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 02:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from messiah_man@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 27 May 2001 02:20:10 -0700 Received: from 62.242.79.117 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 27 May 2001 09:20:10 GMT X-Originating-IP: [62.242.79.117] From: "Munish Chopra" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fetchmail: lock creation failed Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:20:10 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2001 09:20:10.0448 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A509D00:01C0E68E] 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 I've had fetchmail set up in my crontab for the last while: @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 600 For the last 14 hours or so, I hadn't received any mail, so I tried to run a 'fetchmail -v' in a terminal. This should usually result in a message saying that fetchmail can't be run when it is already running in daemon mode, but now it just says: fetchmail: lock creation failed Anyone have a bright idea as to what's causing this? (please cc me). -Munish _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message