On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > The point behind having the external dotlock helper is to make sure > that we can do the dotlocking with the necessary privileges. I think there's no need for dotlocking at all... FCNTL should suffice. I'm on Linux, accessing the files via AFS. I never use more than one session at a time... > The best approach if you want to install a custom mutt version on a > system that has mutt_dotlock installed elsewhere is to just *ignore* > the fact that "make install" bails out complaining about a chgrp. > Then, use your mutt configuration to point to the pre-installed > mutt_dotlock. That way, you get your private mutt, but still have > the necessary locking rights. Unfortunately this won't work for me... There is an installation of mutt already on the box, but it's Red-Hat-ized (no mutt-dotlock). Do other programs provide a usable dotlock? Procmail maybe (/usr/bin/lockfile)? > As an alternative, edit config.h after you ran ./configure, and > undefine USE_DOTLOCK there. Again, ignore the error upon > installation. Don't do this one unless you understand your system's > locking setup. I tried this too. Whenever I start mutt, I get an error message: fcntl: Invalid argument (errno = 22) I haven't had a chance to debug this. I'm thinking it may have something to do with AFS. Whenever I try to explicitly ask mutt to open my inbox, it tells me that the file isn't a mailbox file. But it most definitely is, in ordinary mbox format... Unfortunately, I know zip about AFS. I'd keep the files on local disk, but I don't always sit at the same machine, unfortunately. We play musical desks a lot. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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