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NAME
dotlock.mailutils - lock mail spool files.
SYNOPSIS
dotlock.mailutils [OPTION...] FILE
DESCRIPTION
GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files.
-d, --[no-]debug
print details of failure reasons to stderr
-f, --force[=MINUTES]
forcibly break an existing lock older than a certain time
-p, --[no-]pid-check
check if the PID of lock owner is still active
-r, --retry=RETRIES
retry the lock a few times
-t, --delay=SECONDS
delay between two successive locking attempts (in seconds)
-u, --[no-]unlock
unlock
Global debugging settings
--debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level
--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages
Configuration handling
--config-file=FILE
load this configuration file; implies --no-config
--config-lint
check configuration file syntax and exit
--config-verbose
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
--no-config
do not load site and user configuration files
--no-site-config
do not load site-wide configuration file
--no-user-config
do not load user configuration file
--set=PARAM=VALUE
set configuration parameter
Informational options
--config-help
show configuration file summary
--show-config-options
show compilation options
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
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 © 2007-2022 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 Mailu-
tils upstream authors.
FSF January 2022 DOTLOCK.MAILUTILS(1)
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