Re: exmh over sshfs

You can also try turning off the detached background process
as a quick experiment.
"Separate background process" pref.

>>>[email protected] said:

 > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:36:52 PDT, Kevin Oberman said:
 > 
 > > Has anyone looked at running exmh on an sshfs mounted file system? I
 > > just gave it a quick try:
 > > % sshfs -o idmap=user my-host: my-host
 > > % setenv HOME /home/oberman/my-host
 > > % exmh
 > > 
 > > exmh starts up normally, with all of the folders shown and the cache
 > > populated with the unseen message counts. But the FTOC is left empty 
and
 > > never shows any data, including when I do a rescan or change folders.
 > > 
 > > I do get a single error:
 > > exmh-bg: send error from command "Inc_PresortFinish", error ""
 > 
 > My first guess is that the exmh-bg is managing to get launched/run with a
 > different value for $HOME, or the 3 uses of ~ to expand to home directory
 > are giving it indigestion?
 > 
 > My second guess is that the $HOME *is* working, and it's finding a 
.Xauthori
     ty
 > file that's lacking a proper cookie for the real display, and thus isn't
 > able to use the Tk/Tcl 'send' command...
 > 
 > Most likely the second.  To fix, you should be able to just:
 > 
 > setenv XAUTHORITY /home/oberman/.Xauthority   (or wherever it actually 
is on
      your box)
 > 
 
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