"Loki Harfagr" <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote in message
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> 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 :-)
Sorry, I must get my sense of humour repaired
>
> >> 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
did the trick. i used the -f option and it ran ok so i aliased it.
>
> >> 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 :-)
Nah. I Vi'd because i couldn't mail
mind you i got an access error when i rebooted about no execution of portmap
so i chmodded it and it fixed that so when i typed mail i got the error
instantly instead of after a delay.
> What does your NFS says about 'sync' ?
it mention no sync or async was specified.
>
> And, any old time, NFS is great but it can be really bitchy,
> especially when using database and mail, really demanding apps ..
perhaps i'll stick to pop and imap for mail then .
>
> G00d lucK, and keep moving !-)

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