Re: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:29:48AM +0200, Leonardo Macchia wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 21:36:35 -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
>
> > but when I run mutt on the client machine, it tells me that the
> > mailbox is read only.
>
> Maybe it's a problem of file locking: mutt try to lock the mailbox but
> does the server support file locking? Do you use knfsd
> (nfs-kernel-server) or nfsd (nfs-server) on server? knfsd provides file
> locking, nfsd does not. If you cannot change servers' settings/config,
> try to mount nfs with "nolock" option.
I've had that problem out work. Our solution was to compile mutt without
the 'fctlock' option (or something like that). I don't remember offhand,
but you could just try ./configure --help, and should be able to figure it
out. This is good if you don't know how to (or can't, in my case) change
the nfs setup.
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David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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