Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:08:56 -0600 (CST) From: Todd Backman <tbackman@corp.gulf.net> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mailbox locked Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980331140655.935D-100000@marlin.corp.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331112053.5583O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Look in the mail que.
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 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
>
>
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Todd Backman (tbackman@corp.gulf.net)
Network Engineering
Systems/POP Administration
Gulf Coast Internet Company 1-800-444-INET
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