Re: lockd errors

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:56:25 +1000

On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 08:15:49PM +0200, Hirling Endre wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
>
> > > elm reports that:
> > > Cannot flock folder "/var/spool/mail/root"! [No locks available]
> >
> > It is my understanding that the lockd in the free Unix communities does
> > not work as expected (ie. as the Sun lockd does)
> > > Could someone help me here as I'm not quite sure what to do about this... :/
> > Recompile elm directing it to use dot-locking only.
>
> I don't think so... Mount the filesystem with the 'nolock' option
> instead, then elm will use lockfiles without recompiling (not only elm
> causes lockd pain..)

Thanks folks. I now mount it nolock and things appear to be groovy.

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CaT (cat@zip.com.au)                       URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null




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