On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cd /oldhome/tom > cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by trial and error that .* > works) > > Almost everything works - e.g. mozilla previously undeleted mail - but > fetchmail which aborts with the "lock creation failed" message. > > How can I fix this? Depends. Are you sure that /home/tom/ and everything under that is owned by you? 'ls -ld /home/tom' and 'ls -la /home/tom' should show tom.tom on every file.
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