"Loki Harfagr" <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote in message
news:42a08179$0$16146$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
> 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 use them bu default but tbh I wanted to play with nfs to get it working
>
> > I
> > have write access to that files so whats going on? Google was no help
here
>
> Mmm, you Google is b0rken then )
>
It seems to be b-rken quite a lot these days or is it my typing?

> Anyway, maybe you could try to see with 'lsof' if some clients
> are not too greedy.
Aren't they always
>