[tech] Dodgy mutt operation on mermaid
Grahame Bowland
gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Feb 21 16:52:01 WST 2000
> On Feb 21, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > On Feb 21, Alastair Irvine scrawled :
>
> > mutt version 1.0.1i, when run on mermaid, seems to always open my mail
> > spool file in read-only mode. This is not the case on mussel. Any ideas?
> >
> this is because the default debian mutt is compiled with:
> make --enable-fcntl --disable-flock
> it should be the other way around to account for NFS mail spools.
> ie: make --disable-fcntl --enable-flock
>
> if someone could od this?
Actually the problem was that we forgot to install nfs-common. Hence lockd
wasn't running.
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Grahame Bowland OCM of UCC and UniSFA, UCC syadmin
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