[ale] Problem with elm file lock
Jason Anderson
janderson at iss.net
Tue Jul 29 13:13:36 EDT 1997
While playing with fetchmail today I have managed to get elm's lock status
into a funny state. I am not overly familiar with how elm handles locks,
but I get the:
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #x
error and cannot seem to figure out how to remove the lock. there is
nothing in /tmp /var/spool/mail /var/lock or anything else that resembles
something to remove. I have even shutdown and rebooted on the off chance
that something non-file was holding onto it with no luck. I can access my
mail with other programs without complaint, so it seems to be an
elm-specific problem.
Any suggestions?
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Jason Anderson
janderson at iss.net
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