Re: pine producing gratuitous folder locks
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote:
> Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began
> telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted
> even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the
> 3.95L-7 .deb package. This resulted in the same thing--if I try to open a
> folder, it's locked. After looking through /usr/doc/pine/tech-notes, I
> checked for <whatever>.lock files corresponding to the various folders, as
> well as a general lockfile in either /var/lock or /tmp without finding
> anything promising. Has anyone else run into this with this package?
Are the permissions on the /tmp directory correct? (1755, which looks
like drwxrwxrwt in ls -l /) This is often my first clue that /tmp has the
wrong perms.
Then again, it could be some other problem...
--Pete
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