Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 11/6/22, Frank wrote: > If all you want to do is make thunderbird put (most of) its data > elsewhere, you could change the profiles.ini file that exists in > ~/.thunderbird. Mine has this: ... > Except for the few files/directories that need to be in ~/.thunderbird, > all thunderbird data ends

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Frank
Op 06-11-2022 om 16:38 schreef Albretch Mueller: on debian live: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ I am running: $ thunderbird --version Thunderbird 91.13.0 $ to download all the data in my gmail account via POP3, but

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Curt
On 2022-11-06, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 Like Greg said (from the man): CAVEATS You must make certain that the named user is not executing any processes when this command is

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2022-11-06 at 15:38 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: [...] > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 > > $ sudo ps -aux | grep 1141 > user1141 0.0 0.1 15600 9144 ?Ss Nov05 0:00 >

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 03:38:56PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ usermod --move-home --home "${_NEW_HOME}" "${_WHMI}" > usermod: user user is currently used by process 1141 > > $ sudo ps -aux | grep 1141 > user1141 0.0 0.1 15600 9144 ?Ss Nov05 0:00 >

"usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
on debian live: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ I am running: $ thunderbird --version Thunderbird 91.13.0 $ to download all the data in my gmail account via POP3, but Thunderbird seems to be making assumptions about where to