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DOTLOCK.MAILUTILS(1) User Commands DOTLOCK.MAILUTILS(1)

NAME

dotlock.mailutils - lock mail spool files.

SYNOPSIS

dotlock.mailutils [OPTION...] FILE

DESCRIPTION

GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files.

print details of failure reasons to stderr
forcibly break an existing lock older than a certain time
check if the PID of lock owner is still active
retry the lock a few times
delay between two successive locking attempts (in seconds)
unlock
Global debugging settings
set Mailutils debugging level

--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

Configuration handling
load this configuration file; implies --no-config
check configuration file syntax and exit
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
do not load site and user configuration files
do not load site-wide configuration file
do not load user configuration file
set configuration parameter
Informational options
show configuration file summary
show compilation options
-?, --help
give this help list
give a short usage message
print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

Returns 0 on success, 3 if locking the file fails because it's already locked, and 1 if some other kind of error occurred.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

February 2024 FSF