Hello, seem to be problem of vpopmail. There is only solution to set sticky bit on whole domain but no for user (maybe it's possible but i don't know how).
2008/4/8, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 06:48 +0200, Lampa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there some way how to disable temporarily account or access to > > files. > > > If you just disable a user's access, you also need to kill any existing > processes the user might have. > > > > I need to backup with tar, but there is problem when tar is > > reading and some file changed (with --ignore-failed-read it continues > > but archive is not created and without --ignore-failed-read it fails). > > > Really? I'm pretty sure I've successfully created tars where files have > changed during it and without any special options. And if you're using > maildir there shouldn't be any mailbox corruption since only metadata > files change. > > You could anyway lock mailboxes one at a time. With maildir creating > dovecot-uidlist.lock file (but that also means creating the .lock safely > so that if it exists, wait until it's gone). > > -- Lampa
