From: Bob Vickers (bobv@cs.rhul.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 11:53:51 EDT
Dear Tru64 Managers,
Well, this is an achievement: I've managed to ask a question so obscure
that it didn't provoke any replies at all! I'm sending this empty summary
for the benefit of the archives, not out of any desire to spread
despondency.
Never mind, I'm sure someone soon will ask an easy question like "how do
you delete files beginning with a hyphen?" and we can all leap in with the
answer.
Original question:
> I have recently been using the Galeon web browser (on Linux), and it is a
> wonderful piece of software. However, it relies on some software called
> gconf to manage its configuration, and I have been having a lot of trouble
> with gconf in the situation where the user's home directory
> resides on a Tru64 NFS server (specifically an advfs file system on
> Tru64 4.0G PK3 plus security patches).
>
> gconf uses fcntl64 to manage lock files in the home directory and the
> locking mechanism often goes wrong, particularly when it is releasing
> locks. I have been in touch with the maintainer of gconf and he feels that
> Tru64 is at fault.
>
> I do not have the knowledge to confirm or deny this. But I would be very
> interested in feedback from other users:
>
> (1) Do you have any experience (good or bad) running Galeon when home
> directories live on a Tru64 server?
>
> (2) Do you know of any file-locking problems other Linux applications have
> that are specific to Tru64 NFS servers? If so are there any good
> solutions?
>
Regards,
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW: http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
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