On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:11:27PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > - exim delivers mail to /var/mail/<user> > > - qpopper is my POP3 server > > - /var/spool/pop is a symlink to /usr/local/pop > > - there is no user quota for /usr/local partition
> Been a while since I dealt with qpopper, but wasn't the lock actually > /var/spool/pop/<user>.pop (the temporary copy of the user's mailbox)? /var/spool/pop/<user>.pop is one thing (it's called temporary maildrop by qpopper) - it's where qpopper moves mail for the time of POP3 session. /var/mail/<user>.lock is another thing. I think it's usually just a few bytes large (probably contains the pid of the locking process), and it's the actual lock file (needed to prevent mbox corruption). Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
