Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:03:04 +1100 (EST) From: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> To: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, support@xinside.com Subject: Re: dtmail & NFS mounted /var/mail Message-ID: <199701232103.IAA02107@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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> > > > Some more problems/issues with CDE. > > > > I am having some problems with dtmail accessing my /var/mail which > > is NFS mounted from my mail-server. I can't seem to update the > > inbox reliably and dtmail tends to crash when trying to do so.... > > > > I guess this is because we don't have any working NFS file-locking. > > Does anybody have any suggestions as to how one could get this > > working? > > > > I saw some mention of tooltalk helping me out here... is that true? > > (CDE is not installed on the mail-server). > > > > Thanks, Mark > > Hello Mark, > > Thank you for your purchase of our AcceleratedX server and CDE. > > What may be happening is that dtmail is trying to lock the mail file > with ToolTalk messages (especially if you are doing things on a Sun). > The earlier version of ToolTalk that some Sun and other machines have > is incompatible with CDE ToolTalk. > > Please put the following into your ~/.mailrc file: > > set cdenotooltalk > > Please let me know if this fixes the problem you are seeing. > Hi Patrik, I used another solution. I moved /usr/dt & /usr/X11R6 over to my fileserver (another FreeBSD box with /usr/local, /home exported) and mounted them back to the workstation so that tooltalk is available on both machines. Now tooltalk seems to be working at all is well. /Mark
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