Re: Unknown process accessing INBOX

[Tom <tommyr agora rdrop com>]

It was not the /var/mail/spool directory that was the permission problem.

I had not made the /tmp file writeable.  Making /tmp writeable solved the
problem and others that would have cropped up shortly without /tmp write
access. 

Thanks for the response.

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Denice wrote:

> 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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