man dotlock.mailutils (Commandes) - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93)

NAME

dotlock - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93)

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
-?, --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 full documentation for dotlock is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dotlock programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info dotlock

should give you access to the complete manual.