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Re: flock|fcntl and mutt



On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:43:03PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| yesterday I installed FreeBSD (RELEASE-5.1) the firts time. Great
| with the famous handbook ;-)
| 
| The home-dirs are mounted via nfs from a woody box. When I start mutt
| at the FreeBSD box it shows
| 
| flock: Operation not supported (errno = 45) 
| mutt compiled with --enable-fcntl:
| fcntl: Operation not supported (errno = 45)

I'd first look at the NFS server and see if lockd is running.

(Though for this problem -- mailboxes -- use Maildir instead of mbox.
Maildir has no locking requirments, and thus doesn't get hit by NFS's
problems with locking.)

-D

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