(main): Increase lock timeout to five minutes.

diff --git a/lib-src/movemail.c b/lib-src/movemail.c
index 36a837e9310a87cf9e0264909ac2fa1959e23782..7160ae206cb6696e1783c2ee56552f890e6300ff 100644 (file)
--- a/lib-src/movemail.c
+++ b/lib-src/movemail.c
@@ -251,11 +251,14 @@ main (argc, argv)
        break;
       sleep (1);
 
-      /* If lock file is a minute old, unlock it.  */
+      /* If lock file is five minutes old, unlock it.
+        Five minutes should be good enough to cope with crashes
+        and wedgitude, and long enough to avoid being fooled
+        by time differences between machines.  */
       if (stat (lockname, &st) >= 0)
        {
          now = time (0);
-         if (st.st_ctime < now - 60)
+         if (st.st_ctime < now - 300)
            unlink (lockname);
        }
     }