Re: Unknown process accessing INBOX

[Denice <deatrich lcavsun1 epfl ch>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Tom wrote:

> 
> I moved my system to a larger hard drive after repeated crashes.  Root can
> access the INBOX but all other users are dropped into a READ ONLY mode
> when attempting to access their INBOX.
> 
> 	"Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly"
> 
> I can't seem to find where the lockfile is located nor the process that
> has the mailbox open.  Any ideas?

If your mail spool is on your 'moved' system, then what are the
permissions of the spool dir? Are there lock files in the spool? (usually
$USER.lock, but depends on the user's mail agent)

Look at /var/spool/mail/   
   ls -la /var/spool | grep mail

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