From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 31 11:22:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25274 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:22:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25111 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05683; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mailbox locked In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > We have a user who's mailbox has been locked somehow. I need to clear the > lock but cannot locate a lock file anywhere. Where would I expect to find > it? A POP locked mailbox? Check for a file /var/mail/${USERNAME}.pop.lock (or .${USERNAME}.pop.lock). The campus Solaris POP server has this problem constantly. They finally created a script called 'unpop' that kills this file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message