Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:59:55 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > >> run ps auxw grep pine and ps auxw | grep perl > [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ ps auxw|grep pine > btth 11116 0.0 0.2 15600 6640 pts/5 S+ 15:22 0:01 alpine > btth 12020 0.0 0.0 4212 704 pts/1 S+ 16:10 0:00 grep pine > [b...@hbsk2 ~]$
If alpine is like pine it looks for a lock on your mail spool. Does the same thing happen if you close alpine before invoking the perl script? > and > [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ ps auxw|grep perl > btth 12039 0.0 0.0 4212 704 pts/1 S+ 16:12 0:00 grep perl > [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ This is OK > The first one makes sense, inasmuch as I do have alpine up and > running again. > >> I suspect some artifact from one app or the other not properly >> terminating. > > I hope you see more than I do above (which is quite possible) -- > or have more ideas .... Not yet ;-) You should be able to run as many instances of terminal or perl as you wish so that narrows it down to alpine and a lock file. Have you straced the script? Why don't you use pan's mailer? Do you boot to level 5 (X) or level 3 and startx? I'm curious if an error might be showing in the tty you startx from. -- -Rinaldi- What color is a chameleon on a mirror? _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
