Darren wrote:

> me again. not my day today. I mounted a remote mailbox to /var/spool/mail
> on a local machine using mount. now i can read the mail in the mailboxes
> via vi or a text editor but as soon as i try to read it using 'mail' it
> pauses for a while then comes back with "Unable to lock mailbox: No locks
> available" I have write access to that files so whats going on? Google was
> no help here

out of curiosity, what kind of 'remote' connection is that? nfs?