Re: another user is reading mail

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <35ACC489.EC472E41@reasors.com>,
	Greg Thorne <gthorne@reasors.com> writes:
> Hello.
>   I don't know how often this error comes up, but it seems that there's quite a
> new messages about it, and no real solution.  Anyway, We are getting the error
> "another user is reading mail /usr/spool/<username>."  We are running in.pop3d. 
> It is only this user, and we deleted him and recreated him and still got the
> same message.  His mail file has the right permissions (user:<username>,
> group:mail).  Any help would be apprecieated.
>                                -Greg
	You can try doing a "fuser /usr/spool/<username>" to see if a process has
his mail file open.  If you're feeling really lucky, you can do "fuser -k
/usr/spool/<username>", which will kill the process.  But, you should find out
first what is using it, and why.

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