harley@cadmium.physics.arizona.edu (David Harley) (05/10/91)
I have just installed nn news system on one of our apollos. One runs
nnmaster, and the rest are clients. However, nnmaster locks the file
MASTER in the spooling directory. It is accessible to anyone on the
node running nnmaster, but is inaccessible to anyone trying to access
it from another node via a link over the net. llkob produces the
following:
Use Constraint Home node Locking node Pathname
W0 Cowriters ABCD ABCD /usr/spool/nn/MASTER
If, for example, I put in the link //ABCD/usr/spool/nn on another node
and try:
> file MASTER
MASTER: unstruct cannot open for reading
Questions: Why isn't a perfectly accessible file on ABCD not accessible
over the net? How can I unlock the file, if I have to? Why does nn
have to lock the file in the first place, since nnmaster is the only
progam accessing the file anyway?
For your info: I tried using ulkob, but however I use it it gives me
"object is not locked by this process (OS/file server)" - even with the
-f option. lprotect gives "All remote root requests are honored", if that
is at all relevant.
By the way, the person at apollo who decided that they didn't have to
use the SEE ALSO cross-referencing system aught to have his head screwed
off. The manuals, when it comes to apollo-speak, are a truly shoddy job.
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