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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
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Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems with tip
Date: 29 Jan 93 20:59:53
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu's message of 29 Jan 1993 15:50:20 GMT

take a look in /var/spool/locks, i think...

sounds like you have an old (bogus) lockfile sitting around...
(also: that path might be a bit incorrect, but find /var -name "lock*" will
find you the right place... 8-)

chris
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
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