Hi all!
So, what's a "mutt_dotlock"?
It's a program (part of the Mutt package) that implements NFS-safe file
locking. To ensure that different programs do not write to the same
mailbox at once (thus corrupting it), mutt_dotlock creates a lock file
in the same directory (that's why
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:47:46AM +0200, Dirk Ruediger wrote:
I user mutt on a nfs-mounted dir. But unfortunatly the systen crashed
during a mutt session (mutt was innocent ;-) and now I can't write to
this dir, mutt always says, that this folder is write-only. I can't find
a lock file.
This is strange. I changed my spoolfile from a local file to
/var/mail/msoulier, which I have write permission to:
[bmerh56e-msoulier-mail]$ ll
total 1282
-rw-rw 1 msoulier mail 65556 Jul 5 14:21 msoulier
And yet, mutt won't modify the contents, because it says
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
This is strange. I changed my spoolfile from a local file to
/var/mail/msoulier, which I have write permission to:
[bmerh56e-msoulier-mail]$ ll
total 1282
-rw-rw 1 msoulier mail 65556 Jul 5 14:21
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:39:47PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
Locking. For Mutt's dotlocking to work, your /var/spool/mail directory
should be writable by group `mail', and your `mutt_dotlock' should be
sgid mail.
Where can I find information on this? I just grepped through the
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 03:05:53PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:39:47PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
Locking. For Mutt's dotlocking to work, your /var/spool/mail directory
should be writable by group `mail', and your `mutt_dotlock' should be
sgid mail.
