At 12:13 PM -0500 1/10/01, David Andrews wrote:
> Thanks all for the help regarding the var/spool/mqueue directory!
>
> Another question - as a result of this problem locking my server (its all
> now under control), I have a locked file in var/spool/mail/.username.pop.
>
> How do I go about deleting this file? The rm command doesn't seem to do it?
> The user can not get mail because of this.
rm will delete it, but you normally shouldn't do that. If there is a
popper process active, it is using the file and will get rid of it
when it is done. Killing the process shouldn't be needed (you can
send it a HUP if you must). Manually deleting the file can cause
lost mail if the file is not empty.
