[GRASS5] [bug #269] (grass) Grass5 and NFS

[Glynn Clements]

Request Tracker wrote:

> at the command d.mon start=x0 it asnwers that it can't complite the
> locking procedure.
> 
> Indeed the dir for locking is exported by nfs and it doesn't have the
> permision to write on it.
> 
> So maybe there is a env-variable to change in order to make grass lock
> at a dir with write permision.

An environment variable is probably a bad idea; in order for lock
files to work, all processes have to use the same path. With an
environment variable, this may not happen.

It may be worth making it a compile-time option, though.

BTW: what is this directory used for?

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>

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