[svlug] fcntl lock

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

Yes.  The flock() function won't work over NFS unless you're running the
nfslockd hackjob on the machine hosting the NFS fileshare.  i.e.,
flock() over NFS doesn't work, and can't work without a really ugly series
of hacks.

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
>   This is starting to drive me nuts.  I recently moved my home directory to
> my NFS server for my machine doing mail.  Everything is fine, except mutt.
> When I start mutt I get a "Waiting for fcntl lock" and it errors saying
> it can't lock.  At first this didn't seem to be too much of a problem, 
> until I tried to save an email to my mail archive, on the NFS mounted 
> partition.  I got the same error and the file won't save.
> 
>   I can touch files, modify them all I want, etc from shell.  Netscape is
> saving it's cache files also.  
> 
>   This is a debian unstable box, latest updates.  I'm running kernel
> 2.4.2 on all my boxes.  I'm not getting any errors anywhere either.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
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