Re: [cobalt-users] aliases file locked error, and site being deleted error, neither should be true

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Every site I deleted, although it did delete, it said the aliases file 
> is locked - and the problem is that I need to add a forwarding address 
> for one user and it won't save (GUI) because I get that same error. Can 
> I just edit a file and add the forwarding address manually?
> Any other things to try to figure out why the aliases is locked?
> Here is the contents of my /etc/locks:
>
> [root@www locks]# ls -al
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Feb  5 10:49 .
> drwxr-xr-x   38 root     root         4096 Feb  5 10:28 ..
> -r--------    1 root     root            0 Jun 15  2003 LCK..swatch
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1183 Feb  5 10:42 altmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           53 Jan 22 00:12 list-7899
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Feb  4 22:16 monitor

The only thing that should be in /etc/locks is the "monitor" file. Remove 
everything else. Then you should be okay.