Re: [Evolution] fcntl(2) problem.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

It has nothing to do with your directory permissions and everything to
do with the fact that your NFS server is broken (ie, it doesn't support
locking).

You probably need to run nfs.lockd or something.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:46, Joachim Holst wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I desperately want to use Ximian Evolution. Some things work quite fine,
> but I always get 'Failed to get lock using fnctl(2): Permission denied
> all the time when trying to retrieve mail. No matter if I use Imap or
> standard POP3.
>
> My system is Mandrake 8.2, my home directory is on a NFS mount. I've
> just upgraded Evolution to version 1.0.7.
>
> Permissions on my directory are:
> drwx------    4 jocke    users        4096 May  5 14:52 mail/
>
> drwx------    3 jocke    users        4096 May  5 14:25 imap/
>
> drwx------    2 jocke    users        4096 May  5 14:52 pop3/
>
> That should be enough for Evolution to be able to access my directories.
>
> I just don't get it.
>
> Regards,
> Joacim Holst
>
>
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