Re: tlug: Pine is suddenly flocked

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I recently upgraded my Debian system, and suddenly Pine stopped being
> able to delete messages from folders (or add them to others).  Pine
> claims they're "read-only".  This isn't true at the mode level; I'm
> guessing it's a file-locking problem.  Root has no such problem, only
> ordinary users.

pine does some freaky stuff with dotfiles and dot-dirs in your home
directory... check ~/.pinerc and see where it's putting your lockfiles.

> 
> man_db also has stopped working (for ordinary users).  It complains
> about not having permission to create a tempfile (a lockfile?) when
> updating the data base.  Debian 2.0 (frozen = slink), kernel 2.0.30
> and 2.2.1-ac5 show the same problem, glibc-2.0.7-19981211.

what are your perms on /var/lock or wherever debian's default lockfile dir
is?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux English / Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc. (http://www.turbolinux.com)


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