Re: probs with umounting nfs mailboxes

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2002.04.26 02:53 Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
> I have got probs with umounting my mailboxes which are mounted via 
> NFS. I have mounted /var/spool/mail/username and /home/username/mail 
> via NFS. When trying to umount these mailboxes I am not able to do 
> so. I get the message(s) 'ressource busy' or '/mnt/export/...' is not 
> mounted. I have got these problems with all versions of the 1.3.x 
> series. I do not have these probs using balsa 1.2.4. I have checked 
> the FAQ but did not find anything about NFS mailboxes. The dir 
> /var/spool/mail/ has got the permissions 01777.

I guess the files/mailboxes are kept open. Use lsof or similar tool to 
find out which files are open and which programs keep them open. I did 
a *quick* check and balsa appars to close mailboxes properly (in my 
quick test).

-pawel