On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:04:56PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
>
> Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000:
> > to start it and it hangs while trying to open my mail folder.
> >
> > All I get is:
> > Reading /usr/mail/rsutton...
> > The same thing happens if I try to start with other folders besides my
> > inbox.
>
> This, and because upgrading to Mutt 1.2 didn't help, well one thing that
> could possibly have stopped working is mutt_dotlock. This is a tiny
> program that's usually installed suid root (or sugrp mail), so that it
> can lock the incoming mail folder in /usr/spool/mail for any user.
> Using it also means that Mutt itself doesn't need to be suid root or
> sugrp mail. And when you upgrade from one Mutt version to another, the
> dotlock program stays the same, it doesn't need to be modified to give
> special permissions again.
>
> Because Mutt apparently still works but things suddenly stopped working,
> it could be that someone changed mutt_dotlock (maybe removing the
> suid/sugrp?)... It might not be that, but it's worth checking.
>
>
Thanks for the help, Mikko. Eventually, all my defunct mutt processes
disappeared, and now I am (happily) using mutt again. I'm not certain
that it was the dotlock, though that sounds like a good possibility.
Hopefully it won't happen again, it was hard to live without mutt for
two days!
rebecca
