as a thought, you might want to do an lsof and see if any processes have mailbox files open.
matt. David wrote: > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
