> My script is below...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> rm /usr/tmp/.pop/.[A-Za-z0-9]* 2> /dev/null
Slackware 4.0 (and maybe 3.6) ship with a flushpop.sh script run by cron
that does just this.
> > I have a problem from time to time with users who check their email
> > (usually with Outlook or it's derivatives, but it also happens with
> > Pegasus) and find that they can't get in. I check their acct by
> > telnetting to port 110 and find an error "mail being read already", and it
> > turns out to be a "flag" file in /var/tmp/.pop directory. If I let it sit
> > for days, it's still there and there is no more active POP3 connection to
> > the server. I'm using the standard POP3 daemon (in.pop3 that comes with
> > inetd) that ships with Slackware. How do I prevent this? There appears
> > to be no discernable pattern and the file does not "timeout" and delete
> > itself.
> >
> >
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