Can anyone help with my odd NFS problem? I have three machines, one of which
is a mail server. The other two machines mount /var/spool/mail over NFS with
read/write permissions. This worked great until a few days ago, when both
clients started complaining about RPC problems like so:
Dec 5 02:12:16 mycroft kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
Dec 5 02:12:16 mycroft kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 207.215.68.163
Dec 5 02:34:53 mycroft kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
Dec 5 02:34:53 mycroft kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 207.215.68.163
Dec 5 02:35:30 mycroft kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
Dec 5 02:35:30 mycroft kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 207.215.68.163
Dec 5 02:36:25 mycroft kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
Dec 5 02:36:25 mycroft kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 207.215.68.163
Dec 5 02:37:17 mycroft kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13
Dec 5 02:37:17 mycroft kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 207.215.68.163
What's more, mutt complains that the mailboxes are read-only and other mail
clients fail to work at all. But this files are not read-only -- I can edit
them with vim without difficulty. Evidently mutt and other apps are unable to
lock the mailboxes, but the server does have lockd running and I have tried
re-starting it with no effect. I'm stumped :-(.
Btw, about mailing labels: I found a great perl script for labels here:
http://www.red-bean.com/labelnation/. Worked well with some minor
customization for my particular label type.
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Henry House
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