Re: permission denied errors

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:21:29AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> i've been getting permission denied errors (readonly) when accessing sfs
> mounted files while using certain programs (openoffice and mutt for two).
> 
> i'm guessing it's an application problem as i can read and write files
> fine using simple unix applications.
> 
> 	cd /sfs/myhost
> 	cp $MAIL xyz
> 	ls -l xyz
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 mark   1209 Jun 23  2005 xyz
> 	mutt -f xyz
> 
> the mailbox is readonly using mutt, but i can clearly write to the file.
> the same thing is true for openoffice.  vi works fine.
> 
> am i missing some magic foo for nfs or something?  perhaps something
> to do with locking?  when i run the attached program in an sfs mounted
> disk i get EIO as the error.

so, locking is definitely at fault.  is there anything i need to do to
sfs to make it work with locking?

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Mark Smith
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