Re: Problems with mutt and locking

2000-03-25 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:10:24PM -0500, Wes Barris wrote: > I have been trying to get mutt working on a Linux/RedHat 6.1 system. > The /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted from a FreeBSD system. > Mutt keeps telling me that user's mail files are "Read Only". > By running this command: > >

Re: Problems with mutt and locking

2000-02-26 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-02-25 16:49:10 -0600, Dan Lipofsky wrote: > elm and pine are probably not using fcntl, which is why they ... pretend to ... > work, just like mutt works when compiled with --disable-fcntl. > You need lockd for fcntl. - Dan You really don't want to use NFS-mounted mail spools without fc

Re: Problems with mutt and locking

2000-02-25 Thread Dan Lipofsky
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:10:24PM -0600, Wes Barris wrote: > I have been trying to get mutt working on a Linux/RedHat 6.1 system. > The /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted from a FreeBSD system. > Mutt keeps telling me that user's mail files are "Read Only". > By running this command: > >

Problems with mutt and locking

2000-02-25 Thread Wes Barris
I have been trying to get mutt working on a Linux/RedHat 6.1 system. The /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted from a FreeBSD system. Mutt keeps telling me that user's mail files are "Read Only". By running this command: mutt | tee junk cat junk I have found this error: