Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:30:34 +0300 From: Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org> To: Thomas Keusch <thomas@visionaire.ping.de> Cc: US FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: qpopper 2.53 and stale lock files Message-ID: <19990709103034.H43156@africaonline.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <19990708134727.B614@dante.visionaire.net>; from Thomas Keusch on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:47:27PM %2B0200 References: <19990708134727.B614@dante.visionaire.net>
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On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:47:27PM +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote: The .thomas.pop is not only a lock file, but is also the file into which mail is copied before being sent to a client. qpopper is compiled by default to leave that file in place. This is so that it can serve as an indicator for when mail was last collected by a client. It is normal and nothing to worry about. If, for some reason, you want qpopper to remove these files, then you have to edit some source code and then recompile it. > Hi, > > I just installed qpopper2.53 on an AMD 386DX40 machine w/ 16mb RAM, > running FreeBSD 3.2R. > > After the mail has been fetched from this host and qpopper is done, it > doesn't rm the lockfile: > > boxx# l /var/mail > total 8264 > -rw------- 1 thomas mail 0 Jul 8 11:48 .thomas.pop > -rw------- 1 annette users 868808 Jul 8 10:44 annette > -rw------- 1 thomas users 0 Jul 8 11:48 thomas > > Do other users experience the same problem? Might it be because > it is such a small box (though it isn't loaded much)? -- Anand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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