Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:00, GCS wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George 
<xyz@spininternet.com> wrote:
> >    cd /oldhome/tom
> >    cp -Rp .* /home/tom               ( Found by trial and error
> > that .* works)
> >
> > Almost everything works - e.g. mozilla previously undeleted mail -
> > but fetchmail which aborts with the "lock creation failed" message.
> >
> > How can I fix this?
>
>  Depends. Are you sure that /home/tom/ and everything under that is
> owned by you? 'ls -ld /home/tom' and 'ls -la /home/tom' should show
> tom.tom on every file.

If he has a tom.tom on every file, he can use them to send the messages, 
together with a few smoke signals, and save bothering to set up email.

Or did I have too much to drink over new year?

-- 
richard