From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54277 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Stern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: movemail dies on me. Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:22:10 -0700 Organization: Cray Inc. Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87r837fs3h.fsf@srcf.ucam.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066422145 23094 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 20:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2818@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 17 22:22:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAb79-0004YJ-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:22:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AAb73-0008PN-00; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AAb6z-0008PF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A6F3A00BE for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:22:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAb6x-0004SS-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:22:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAb6w-0004SK-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:22:10 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAb6w-0005zz-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:22:10 +0200 Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JOTYdxrqA9ZjJ+dXvMZ0DVO7oyk= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54277 On 17 Oct 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Gaute B Strokkenes writes: > >> For some time now, I have occasionally had to deal with queries like >> this: >> >> movemail: (Drept return). Continue? (yes or no) > > [...] > >> Unfortunately I'm finding this rather hard to debug. movemail is >> suid so that it can manipulate my mail spool, and the intermittent >> nature doesn't help either. Is anyone else seeing this? > > Haven't heard of anything like that before. I just started an emacs compiled for Linux that is otherwise identically set as on my emacs compiled for Solaris 2.8. I have mail-sources looking in an incoming spool directory, and suddenly I get a message like this: movemail: No locks available for /users/stern/mail/incoming/lists.linux.spool (1 return). Continue? (yes or no) (not sure if that cut and paste worked ... the region is read only (?!) so I'm copying it below. movemail: No locks available for /mail/incoming/somefolder.spool \ (1 return). Continue? (yes or no) For me, this happens every time I try to read new mail. -- Ted Stern Applications Group Cray Inc. office: 206-701-2182 411 First Avenue South, Suite 600 cell: 206-383-1049 Seattle, WA 98104-2860 FAX: 206-701-2500 Frango ut patefaciam -- I break that I may reveal (The Paleontological Society motto, equally apropos for debugging)