RE: [Evolution] Problems with NFS

["John Graber" <badger wi rr com>]

I am using static IP's.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rakich, Richard [mailto:RRakich rational com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: 'theBadger uwalumni com'; evolution ximian com
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Problems with NFS
>
>
> Do you happen to be using DHCP with your Linux clients?  I 
> found that I had
> the same problem when I was using DHCP, when I switched to a static IP
> address, the problem went away.  I don't know *why* this would make a
> difference, but it did.
>
> RichR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Graber [mailto:badger wi rr com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: evolution ximian com
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Problems with NFS
>
>
> Yep.  I am using mbox over NFS. . .
>
> As to the question about what bug number this was - of course 
> I did not
> write that down!
>
> I would VERY much prefer not to have to compile Evo before 
> using it as a
> company-wide solution.  Supporting and updating software with 
> custom options
> is not high on my list of desirable tasks.
>
> What are my options at present?  What does Ximian plan to 
> implement, if
> anything, before 1.0?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian [mailto:brianb sboss com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:21 AM
> > To: evolution ximian com
> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problems with NFS
> >
> >
> > Lemme guess ... you use mbox over NFS, right?
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 09:50, John Graber wrote:
> >
> > > I found that this has been registered as a bug on Bugzilla
> > - but whether it
> > > is being addressed as a priority is unclear:
> > >
> > > I had been happily using Evo for quite some time, when one
> > day I moved my
> > > home directory to an NFS share. . .
> > >
> > > Now, I am unable to receive mail due to locking problems
> > with fcntl(2).
> > > This has basically made Evo useless to me.
> > >
> > > As a sys admin, this seems to me to be a major issue.  I
> > have been at
> > > several sites where all user home directories as located on
> > an NFS share as
> > > mine are.  I would very much like to make Evo our app of
> > choice for personal
> > > info mgmt. and email but this will prevent that.
> > >
> > > What is the priority for addressing this issue?  (Please
> > don't tell me I can
> > > fix it by recompiling with an option!  ;)
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the hard work!
> > >
> > > Prost,
> > >   John
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > evolution maillist  -  evolution ximian com
> > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> evolution maillist  -  evolution ximian com
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution