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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Where to put GNU Emacs lockfiles on an NFS network?
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Date: 30 Nov 89 08:58:17 GMT
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I just installed GNU Emacs on a network of Suns and I'm trying to figure
out where to put the lock directory.  It has to be on a filesystem
that's shared by all the workstations (like /usr/local but not /tmp in
our setup), otherwise the lockfiles are fairly useless.
But since emacs doesn't run setuid or setgid, doesn't that mean I have
to create a world-writable directory somewhere for the lockfiles?
Where do other systems with networked workstations put them?
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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>


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