When I run I get:
mailx: Creating file (dot) lock for /var/spool/mail/russell . failed
mailx: Fishy! Is someone trying to "steal" foreign files?
mailx: Please check the mailbox file etc. manually, then retry
mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Resource
temporarily unavailable
mailx: Creating file (dot) lock for /var/spool/mail/russell . failed
mailx: Fishy! Is someone trying to "steal" foreign files?
mailx: Please check the mailbox file etc. manually, then retry
mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox: Resource temporarily unavailable
mailx: There are new messages in the error message ring (denoted by
ERROR),
mailx: which can be managed with the `errors' command
ERROR# Continue, possibly losing changes [yes]/no? yes
It quits whether I answer yes or no.
mailx v14.9.21, 2021-01-21 (built for Linux)
mail -f /var/spool/mail/russell
works.
The version hasn't changed January 24 but Slackware did
re-build against glibc 2.33 that day. I'd hope that wouldn't matter.
russell bell
