GRASS lock problem

[Charles Dingman]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, you wrote:
>Ae you getting the same locking problem as me?
>
>[hamannj at ren hamannj]$ grass4.2
>/usr/local/grass42/etc/GIS.sh: /usr/local/grass42/etc/lock: No such file or directory
>Unable to properly access /home/hamannj/.gislock
>Please notify system personel.
>[hamannj at ren hamannj]$ 
>
>Being new to Linux I'm not really sure I if I need to change a path in a shell
>script or not.  Do I? 
>
>I installed the grass binaries exactly as instructed from the web site and
>still get this problem. 
>
>Help.
>
Several of us are getting that exact error message ( with our own machine name,
of course).    I don't know what to try next, but I believe Markus is looking
into it (see quote below).
 > > We will find a solution!  > >  > > With regards 
> > 
> >   Markus Neteler