[GRASSLIST:326] Re: after 2 days trying..

[Gordon Keith]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:47, Glynn Clements wrote:
> However, one possibility is that it's part of a rather bizarre
> locking mechanims. GRASS won't allow a user to have more than one
> session; if a mapset can only be modified by its owner, and its owner
> is limited to a single session, there's no chance of two sessions
> concurrently modifying a mapset.

Unfortunately it's not a reliable mechanism in a NFS world.

A user with local home directories on two different machines can access 
the same grass database on an NFS share from both login sessions.

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
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