Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

[Obi <graziano@smtp.ucsd.edu>]

Thanks! It actually works ... only if I mount that directly but it
doesn't work if I use amd specifying nolock! I'll figure it out though.

Thanks again
graziano

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:51:28PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <cistron.19990908123509.A20086@sport750.mia.duc>,
> Obi  <graziano@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I know this topic already showed up on the mailing list but the solutions
> >weren't really up to mu case: that is having the file on the local FS!!
> >
> >The situation is /home NFS mounted and mutt refusing to do anything to
> >every file in the home directory because of the dreaded locking
> >mechanism. THe server is a Debian stable machine and the client is an
> >unstable Debian client. 
> >
> >What can I do? 
> 
> If you're running a 2.2 kernel on the NFS client, it tries to do
> NFS locking by default. If your server doesn't support that you
> have to mount the NFS partition with the option "nolock". That's all.
> 
> Mike.
> -- 
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