Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:02:25PM -0800, Henry House wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote:
> > I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox
> > (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write
> > on it. I don't think it is a permission problem since pine has no problem
> > to write on that file. So my suspection is on mutt.
>
> This is because one or both of the machines is not running lockd. (That is in
> the package nfs-common).
The server side also needs to run the kernel nfsd (compile the kernel with
NFS server support and install the knfsd package) for locking to work well
enough to make mutt happy.
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