NFS locking

2007-02-13 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, I'm having problems with a couple of applications and reading about the problem indicates its probably caused by locking not working correctly on NFS. The problem seems to lie with the server end of the set up - my guess is that it's not accepting the locks from the client machine. Both

Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

2007-01-03 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why doesn't it just work anyway?) I am unable to use

Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

2007-01-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why

Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

2006-12-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why doesn't it just work anyway?) I am unable to use monotone properly over an NFS mount because it very sensibly tries

Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

2006-12-23 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-12-14 12:42:13, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why doesn't it just work anyway?) I am unable to use

How do I get NFS locking to work?

2006-12-14 Thread hendrik
How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why doesn't it just work anyway?) I am unable to use monotone properly over an NFS mount because it very sensibly tries to lock its repository before modifying it. My only clue to the problem is messages that keep being reported by logcheck: Security

Re: How do I get NFS locking to work?

2006-12-14 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get NFS locking to work? (And why doesn't it just work anyway?) I am unable to use monotone properly over an NFS mount because it very sensibly tries to lock its repository before modifying it. My only clue

nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi! Is there a special nfs locking daemon for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a lockd process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has nfs-mounted home directories), GNOME complains about a problem with your operating system

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Awais Ahmad
Yes, lockd. You need to run it on the clients. Awais On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:22, Christian Schwarz wrote: Hi! Is there a special nfs locking daemon for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a lockd process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a special nfs locking daemon for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a lockd process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has nfs-mounted home

GNOME 2.2 and NFS locking problem

2004-07-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi! After upgrading a diskless client (root fs mounted via NFS) to the GNOME 2.2 backport packages, I get the following error message when logging in into X: Could not lock the file /nethome/wile/.gconf-test-locking-file; this indicates that there may be a problem with your operating system

NFS locking issues

2002-09-04 Thread nate
it was just a couple weeks ago I was trying to help others on NFS and here I a asking something! doh! anyways, I noticed recently that my NFS server at home seems to have trouble with locking. I have 2 clients which use it to host home directories(1 debian woody, 1 suse 8). I first noticed it

Re: NFS locking issues

2002-09-04 Thread Kent West
nate wrote: it was just a couple weeks ago I was trying to help others on NFS and here I a asking something! doh! anyways, I noticed recently that my NFS server at home seems to have trouble with locking. I have 2 clients which use it to host home directories(1 debian woody, 1 suse 8). I

Re: NFS locking issues

2002-09-04 Thread Hugo Graumann
* On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:37:07PM -0500, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: nate wrote: it was just a couple weeks ago I was trying to help others on NFS and here I a asking something! doh! anyways, I noticed recently that my NFS server at home seems to have trouble with

Re: NFS locking issues

2002-09-04 Thread nate
Hugo Graumann said: I have had problems with NFS file locking as well. Some parts of gnome like to use file locking, so with nfs mounted home directories the users could not really run gnome properly. that would explain some other problems I had.. I was testing my mom's GNOME profile and it

Re: NFS locking issues

2002-09-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-04 17:15:14 -0600]: 2) There is a system call to lock a file or parts of a file. In the Stevens book Advanced Programming for the Unix Environment there is a whole section on file locking including a c program to lock files. If locking is

NFS locking not working

2001-07-10 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi there, I've been trying to get NFS locking to work on a small network of two computers, but completely failed on it. Does anybody have experiences on that? I have tried all kinds of things and read a lot of documentation but found no hint about what detail I might be missing. I'm running

Re: NFS locking not working

2001-07-10 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: I've been trying to get NFS locking to work on a small network of two computers, but completely failed on it. Does anybody have experiences on that? I have tried all kinds of things and read a lot of documentation but found

Re: nfs-locking broken in unstable and testing?

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
Dietz Proepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's my first mail to that list - so plz be patient with me ;). Sould the following be already known - sorry too. The bug tracking system is your friend :) http://bugs.debian.org/96864 http://bugs.debian.org/97252 -- Colin Watson

potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of: Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.1.1 Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel:

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of: Feb 18

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:11:32 -0900 Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In one of

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:25:46PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: statd: 192.168.1.1 and such to the proper machines. Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure if I understood this. If I put this line to hosts.deny, wouldn't this mean to explicitly deny access of this computer? But if

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:31:59 -0900 Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need it in hosts.allow. ALL: PARANOID might be causing the problem here since NAT lans rarely have reverse DNS working properly. There is no NAT here (yet), but I do have a properly working local DNS. Now I have

Re: Linux NFS locking

1999-04-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Debian box running as a Samba server, with mostly NFS mounted drives. When the users try to access files that need locking,, like Access databases, it can't lock the file, and won't allow them to open it. How *does* one get Linux to do real NFS locking

Re: NFS locking

1996-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
) that to the lockfile - that's guaranteed atomic, even over NFS. On the same note, supposing that NFS locking works fine in FreeBSD, would that be erased if exporting to a linux box? (Exporting from linux wouldn't work since the NFS locking in linux doesn't work; but would exporting *to* linux work