Re: mirroring again

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, MPfeifer wrote:

> the trick of installing procmail worked, to use anonftpsync
> but i keep having problems with it.
> now i get the message:
> 
> krombakje:/var/www# ./anonftpsync
> lockfile: Try praying, giving up on ""
> 
> man lockfile shows me the following:
> 
>        Try praying, ...       Missing  subdirectories or insuffi-
>                               cient privileges.

My guess is that the lockfile couldn't be created. Try
  echo Lockfile="$LOCK"
  echo test > "$LOCK"
just before the lockfile call, and see if that works (or gives a more
informative error.)


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer