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

[Andrew Green <andrew green securetrendz com>]

For me, this is happening on a locally mounted filesystem.  No NFS involved
at all.   I simply brought it up because I had the same error as the gentleman
who happens to be using NFS.  

I am running Evo as root, which is why I'm confused as to the locking problem.

Andrew


Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 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
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