"Dominik L. Borkowski" <dom@vbi.vt.edu> wrote in message
news:d7ps85$20j$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> 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?
Didn't i say? *looks up* Damned I forgot to mention. Yes its nfs