This situation has now deteriorated badly. I've discovered that any user except root gets the following message when opening their mail in pine:
Mailbox is open by another process. Access is read only This is from a terminal, either X (locally) or ssh. I'm slightly worried that I've been cracked, although I'm not sure how to tell. I still can't figure out what process is holding the mailboxes. What exactly is a Checkpoint file failure? I've never heard of that before. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, David wrote: > > > > > I'm getting this message from pine: > > > > [Checkpoint file failure: Permission denied] > > > > I've never seen this before, and now pine won't delete emails. Composition > > is ok. > > How are you using pine? IMAP or POP3. Where is the mail server -v- Pine? > > > > > I get the impression that some other process has the mailbox files, > > although I'm not sure, but lsof doesn't find anything obvious. > > > > What is a checkpoint file? any suggestions? > > > > David. > > > > > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people > Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com > "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me > Get rid of the Australian states. > ------------------------------------------ > If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
