Re: [TCLUG:19409] silly question

[blutgens@sistina.com]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:49:32PM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote:
>!!!  Turning locking off is _not_ a good idea.  What if you've got too seperate
>MUAs running on two different machines (or the same machine) both reading your 

It's a mailbox in my home dir. I'll just have to be careful.

>mail spool?  There's a good chance you could corrupt your spool.  If it's a 
>locking problem, make sure you have rpc.statd running so that mutt can flock
>your spool.

statd was running the whole time. the nolock option was the olny way. works
fine now. flock is pretty important but the files I am opening shouldn't be
used by anything else. it's only a $HOME/


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