Re: lock files 4.0.8 on FC3

At 8:39 AM +0100 6/4/06, Obantec Support wrote:

>  Can someone tell me what the lock files look like on qpopper
>  dovecot used .username.lock but i have yet to see any sign of qpopper
>  creating a lock file.
>
>  the tempfile .username.pop is working and chmod -rw-rw--.... and i see
>  username go to 0bytes while this is in progress but no sign of a lock file?
>
>  my LDA is procmail and i recall it looks for username.lock to hold of
>  writing to the mbox.

Qpopper creates a lock file which is the name of the spool file with 
".lock" appended.  But the spool is only locked while the contents 
are copied to or from the temp drop, so it may be hard to catch if 
you're watching for it.  You can enable Qpopper tracing to see it 
create and release the lock.

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