Bug 4516

Summary:	File Locking Broken
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Steve Wills <steve>
Component:	nfs-server	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
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Description Steve Wills 1999-08-13 20:52:47 UTC

My mail client (mutt, running on 6.0) is unable to lock my
mailbox files (mbox format) across NFS from a 6.0 NFS
server.

Steve

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-08-28 00:07:59 UTC

are you running lockd and statd on the client machine? Locking over
NFS is evil anyway and it is useless anyway, since it is anything
*but* atomic. Use imap.

Or come by my desk and show me a reproductible scenario so I can dig
into the problem.

------- Additional Comments From   08/30/99 12:35 -------
I actually managed to get this working by using the "lock" option to
mount.

Sorry,
Steve