Re: lockd errors

Hirling Endre (endre@darmol.elte.hu)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:15:49 +0200 (CEST)


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..)

greetings
endre

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