dotlock.mailutils1

Usage

Overview

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)

--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.