Mail error

[Warren griggs]

Hi,

I am getting a error when running mail from the command line. It hangs and then says...

/var/mail/root: Lockf deadlock detection
mail: can not lock on /var/mail/root after 100 tries

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks in advance,

Colin.

[Craig Rants]

I have not seen it before but I would check to see if the permissions on the /var/mail/root file look different from any of the other user mail files.

GL,
C

[Corthouts Carlo]

Hi,

You get this message when more then one process are trying to lock/release this file.

[Trond Haugen]

Probably some other programm accessing the file. Try running 'fuser /var/mail/root'.

Trond

[K.Vijayaragavan. · Accepted solution]

See the forum link which may answer your question:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x22c0854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

-Vijay