When I run I get:
mailx: Creating file (dot) lock for /var/spool/mail/russell . failed mailx: Fishy! Is someone trying to "steal" foreign files? mailx: Please check the mailbox file etc. manually, then retry mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Resource temporarily unavailable mailx: Creating file (dot) lock for /var/spool/mail/russell . failed mailx: Fishy! Is someone trying to "steal" foreign files? mailx: Please check the mailbox file etc. manually, then retry mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox: Resource temporarily unavailable mailx: There are new messages in the error message ring (denoted by ERROR), mailx: which can be managed with the `errors' command ERROR# Continue, possibly losing changes [yes]/no? yes It quits whether I answer yes or no. mailx v14.9.21, 2021-01-21 (built for Linux) mail -f /var/spool/mail/russell works. The version hasn't changed January 24 but Slackware did re-build against glibc 2.33 that day. I'd hope that wouldn't matter. russell bell