Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
john wrote: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) >string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) >rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) >rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" > "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t) >rmail-get-new-mail-1(nil

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-28 Thread john
Apologies; if it helps Emacs barfs with the following Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("^\\(imap\\|pop\\)s?$" nil nil) rmail-remote-proto-p(nil) rmail-insert-inbox-text(("/var/spool/mail/jpff" "/mnt/snout/home/jpff/mbox") t)

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread Mike Kupfer
John wrote: > Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is > mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs > from a simple file. This has worked for many years. But now with the > jessie->stretch upgrade it fails with emacs barfing. Can you give

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread deloptes
John wrote: > nice idea but the uids are the same across the network; the gid differ > but that should not matter as the access is 600.  I can create and > delete files read them etc as expected. > > The files are mounted with nfs3 > > snout  

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 1/27/19 7:35 PM, John wrote: > I run a mixed Debian/openSuSE /android LAN an after an upgrade of one > component from jessie to stretch I have hit a big problem. > > Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is > mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread John
> Check the ownership? I recall at some point of time there was something with > the id mapping - also check if you may need to enforce nfs version 3 nice idea but the uids are the same across the network; the gid differ but that should not matter as the access is 600. I can create and delete

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread deloptes
John wrote: > I run a mixed Debian/openSuSE /android LAN an after an upgrade of one > component from jessie to stretch I have hit a big problem. > > Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is > mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs > from

Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread John
I run a mixed Debian/openSuSE /android LAN an after an upgrade of one component from jessie to stretch I have hit a big problem. Mail is delivered into a mbox on the Debian server, and the disk is mounted on the user machine via NFS so the mail can be read into emacs from a simple file. This has