Le Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:52:55 +0000, Darren a écrit*:

> me again. not my day today.

Ouch, we can see that ! Some days just never end ...

> 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"

Have you been recently playing with NFS ?
Is it that your "remote mailbox" is NFS'd ?

Then you have what happens recurrently in these kind of
installations ... That's one of the reasons POP3 and IMAP
are there :-)

> I
> have write access to that files so whats going on? Google was no help here

Mmm, you Google is b0rken then )

Anyway, maybe you could try to see with 'lsof' if some clients
are not too greedy.