DOTLOCK(1) User Commands DOTLOCK(1)
NAME
dotlock - lock mail spool files.
SYNOPSIS
dotlock.mailutils [OPTION...] FILE
DESCRIPTION
GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files.
-d, --debug
print details of failure reasons to stderr
-f, --force[=MINUTES]
forcibly break an existing lock older than a certain time
-r, --retry[=RETRIES]
retry the lock a few times
-u, --unlock
unlock
--license
print license and exit
Common options
--config-file=FILE, --rcfile=FILE
load this configuration file
--config-help
show configuration file summary
--config-lint, --rcfile-lint
check configuration file syntax and exit
--config-verbose, --rcfile-verbose
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
--no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile
do not load site configuration file
--no-user-config, --no-user-rcfile
do not load user configuration file
--set=PARAM=VALUE
set configuration parameter
--show-config-options
show compilation options
Global debugging settings
--debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level
--debug-line-info
show source info with debugging messages
-?, --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>.
SEE ALSO
The complete GNU mailutils manual is not available in Debian systems due to licensing reasons. You can find this manual online in the GNU
mailutils webpage:
http://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
May 2011 DOTLOCK(1)
