[wplug] Mysterious locking

[beer]

in that directory, there should be a file '.lock'

if you remove that it should be unlocked.  it would be worth it to track down why you had a rogue lock to prevent it happening in the future.



On Mon, August 7, 2006 11:28 am, Scott F. Kiesling said:
> Hi all-
> 
> I recently received the following message when trying to update my mairix
> database:
> 
> Database /home/kiesling/.mairix_database appears to be locked by
> (pid,node,user)=(7219,miles,kiesling)
> 
> There is no 7129 PID, and I never locked this file. I don't know much
> about file locking and haven't found the key using Google. I'd appreciate
> some pointers on getting this thing unlocked, so I can search my mail.
> 
> Thanks Scott
> 
> -- Scott F. Kiesling Associate Professor
> 
> Department of Linguistics University of Pittsburgh
> 
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