Le Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:08:06 +0000, Darren a écrit*:

>
> "Loki Harfagr" <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote in message
> news:42a08179$0$16146$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
>> Le Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:52:55 +0000, Darren a écrit :
>>
>> > me again. not my day today.
....
>> > I mounted a remote mailbox to /var/spool/mail on
>> > a local machine using mount. now i can read the mail in the mailboxes
> via vi
>> > or a text editor but as soon as i try to read it using 'mail' it pauses
> for
>> > a while then comes back with "Unable to lock mailbox: No locks
> available"
>>
>> Have you been recently playing with NFS ?
>> Is it that your "remote mailbox" is NFS'd ?
>>
>> Then you have what happens recurrently in these kind of
>> installations ... That's one of the reasons POP3 and IMAP
>> are there :-)
> I use them bu default but tbh I wanted to play with nfs to get it working

Yes, I was joking :-)

>> Mmm, you Google is b0rken then )
>>
> It seems to be b-rken quite a lot these days or is it my typing?

Could be, coulbe, though I made the joke while pasting this link
(found by gl0OgeinG), and it didn't print )

Hope it'll help you ?
http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~jon/help/u...r/nolocks.html

>> Anyway, maybe you could try to see with 'lsof' if some clients
>> are not too greedy.
> Aren't they always

Half as much as our PHBs ;-)

The lsof is to use just in case. I'd bet your actual problem is
more related to using 'mail' (especially if after VI) and not
having your NFS set to such bold :-)
What does your NFS says about 'sync' ?

And, any old time, NFS is great but it can be really bitchy,
especially when using database and mail, really demanding apps ...

G00d lucK, and keep moving !-)