On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote: > ERR- maillock: '/var/spool/pop/<user>.pop' > Is there such a file? If you telnet into a pop server, it will move the mailbox /var/spool/mail/username to /var/spoll/pop/username.pop (and leave a 0 Byte file in /var/spool/mail. After quiting pop, it should be moved back.
You have to clean up a bit. /var/spool/mail/username should hold the user's mail and there shouldn't be a /var/spoll/pop/username. Try again afterwards. > Anything else to try? I can't check it with 'mail' from the prompt > either. I get /var/spool/mail/<user> permission denied. > Here is what I got: $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Nov 26 18:34 /var/spool/mail $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/martinb -rw------- 1 martinb mail 498272 Nov 26 22:55 /var/spool/mail/martinb $ ls -ld /var/spool/pop drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Nov 26 18:34 /var/spool/pop Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .