On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/01/2013 07:07 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:04:00 +1100 >> "[email protected]"<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just a wild suggestion. Maybe the file needs to be writeable by world? >>> so chmod a+w your reminder file might be all that is needed. >> >> Remind will refuse to read world-writable files. >> >>>> "Can't write reminder file "mnt/BOX48/rem/reminders" >> >> >> Does the directory /mnt/BOX48/rem exist? >> >> Regards, >> >> David. >> >> >> Ok, now my server problems are fixed. I had stopper a system >> update before it finished and corrupted the kernel. >> >> Now I am still unable to use remind from the SL6.3 computer. >> This is what I see: >> >> [bobg@box7 ~]$ /usr/bin/tkremind /mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders >> >> >> TkRemind Copyright (C) 1996-1998 David F. Skoll >> Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Roaring Penguin Software Inc. >> >> and an error message: Can't write reminder file >> '/mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders' >> >> Other data is read from the NFS server e.g. Notecase. >> >> And an Fedora 18 computer reads and writes to the same remind >> file without problems. >> >> I have been looking at permissions, groups, etc, without >> seeing any differences between the working F-18 box and this >> Sciantific Linux one? Both operating systems are to computers >> that were running F-17 without any problem. >> >> One other thing, I can create a remind file in this computer >> instead of on the server and it will work. The parts seem to >> work individually but not together. >> >> Any suggestions appreciated, >> >> >> Bob >> >> -- >> http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD >> >> box7 Scientific Linux 6.3 >> > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
Is this a question or an update? Hard to tell with the quoting and formatting... >From SL6.3 (not sure what that is), can you manually edit and save the same file? Even try just: $ touch /mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders and see if it updates the access time on the file? _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
