** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:13:16 -0500 (EST)


> There has been an issue brewing for a while in the fancy X desktops,
> specifically Gnome, but I beleive KDE has the same problem.
> 
> Gnome wants to make a lock file based in the user's home directory.
> This is problematic if the home directory is NFS mounted, as the
> lock then is expected to be manged using statd and/or lockd.  The
> history of statd/lockd has been at best chequered; not just in the
> Linux community but in general.

Would moving to the new tcp-enabled version of NFS be a solution? Or does this still 
require statd/lockd? The docs state that portmapper is no longer required for the tcp 
version. Trond???

jb

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