Re: mutt keeps thinking there's new mail in /var/mail/user
On 04/14/08 13:10, Justin Mazzola Paluska wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:32:26PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> > Is /var mounted noatime?
>
> Do you have laptop-mode turned on on your laptop? Laptop-mode can be
> configured to remount your drives with noatime when you go on
> battery. This may explain why you have problems with your laptop but
> not your desktop.
No, I had set it manually to noatime at some point in /etc/fstab,
experimentally, and forgotten about it. Since taking it out the
problem is gone.
Sorry btw -- I had thought I had replied to the list that the problem
is solved.
m.