Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Evolution and NFS]

[Ian Goldberg <ian cypherpunks ca>]

On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 14:41, Jim Meyer wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> This sounds like you don't have permissions to lock that file. This
> might happen if you're running it as you (not as root) and trying to use
> fcntl or flock to lock a file you can't write, or trying to dot-lock a
> file in a directory in which you can't write.

Also remember that often, the "root" user is mapped to "nobody" over NFS
(that is, root isn't all-powerful on the NFS filesystem).  That's one
common reason that a dotlock would fail.

   - Ian