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From: betsy@vesuvius.esd.sgi.com (Betsy Zeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: workspace help!
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Date: 4 Jan 91 02:52:16 GMT
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In article <daj.661568984@godzilla> daj@ (Dean A. Jones) writes:
>Since updating our diskless network to 3.3 workspace no longer works on the 
>diskless machines. It works on the main server and on the machine where the
>users directories are stored (which the diskless machines nfs mount).
>Can anyone offer advice?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Dean Jones.
>Computer Systems Officer.
>Advanced Computer Graphics Centre.
>RMIT
>daj@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au


One simple (though annoying) fix for this is to remove the file
	$HOME/.workspace/.lockFile
before running workspace. Unfortunately, this has to be done each time
before workspace is run.

Betsy Zeller
betsy@sgi.com