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echo: bbbs.english
to: Alan Ianson
from: Robert Wolfe
date: 2019-01-17 15:39:14
subject: Problem tossing mail

> I'm having a problem tossing mail. Sometimes when I run "./bbbs
bogus w" I
> see..

> Message base locked (/bbbs/work/bbsrun.c exists), waiting...

> In fact bbsrun.c does exist along with serveral 0 byte .tmp files in the work
>directory. I need to delete it to continue tossing incoming mail until the nex
> time I get the above.

I find that deleting the bbbsrun.c file will help to get things going more
often than not.

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