How about fixing the problem instead of the symptom? cucipop handles things
much better IMHO. No need to kludge a script and crontab to clean things
up.
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jim Roland wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:11:16 -0600
> From: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Xu Li Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sendmail. How to disable the use of forbidden mark in
> /usr/tmp/.pop directory.
>
> It's usually a function of the in.pop3d daemon not timing out the session and
> deleting the file. When someone downloads POP3 mail, when they login, a copy
> of their /var/spool/mail/username file is made to /var/tmp/.pop/username and
> they actually download from the "tmp" dir. This way, when a new message comes
> in, it does not create a file conflict (it's a "snapshot" of their file).
>
> I have had your problem happen to me frequently (pop3 sees the temp file
> already there and thinks that someone else is downloading from that mailbox).
> What I did to resolve it was to put in a crontab event (login as root then do
> a "crontab -e" command) and put in the following:
>
> # Delete stale mail-download locks from invalidly disconnected pop3 sessions:
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * find /var/tmp/.pop/* -mmin +5
> 2> /dev/null | xargs rm -f
>
> (all of that should be on the same line)
>
> What is does is this:
>
> Every 5 minutes, every hour, every day, etc (I could have tried */5 I guess
> instead of listing each 5 minute interval)
> Find files in /var/pop/.tmp that have not been modified in the last 5 minutes
> (someone downloading POP3 mail will keep modifying this file), and delete them
> if they have been idle for over 5 minutes. This is the "find /var/tmp/.pop/*
> -mmin +5 | xargs rm -f" part of the command above.
> The "2> /dev/null" was inserted to keep the root account from getting a mail
> message every 5 minutes when there is no file to clean out at that cycle.
>
> I hope this helps.
> JR
>
>
> Xu Li Hua wrote:
>
> > Hi Friends:
> > I have trouble in using Sendmail in Slackware Linux.
> > My username often appreared in the /usr/tmp/.pop directory.
> > Then I can't get my mail.
> > Why it happens? How can I disable this function?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Xu Lihua
>
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