[tech] fcntl problems on mermaid

[Alastair Irvine]

On Thu, 11 May, 2000 at 12:57:46PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> Once again, mutt on mermaid is having problems trying to lock mailboxen.
> It can only open them in read-only mode, and frequently reports that
> fcntl() has returned system error number 37: "No record locks available".

Grahame has installed the nfs-common package on mermaid, which has the
lockd daemon in it.  The absence of this daemon was the reason why NFS file
locking was not working.

[snip]

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    still a rat.
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