Re: problem with lockfile in gnokii

[pete]

Cheers, I'll try it tonight.  Do you know where the most complete documentation 
for gnokii is kept as I couldn't find much of use in the man pages or on the 
gnokii.org site?

Cheers

Pete

Quoting Pawel Kot <address@hidden>:

> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Quick Introduction: I've just bought a nokia 8310e (UK version) and a
> belkin
> > usb-irda adaptor running on a sharp laptop (mandrake linux 8.2).  I've got
> the
> > usb-irda connector working fine.  I can run irattach and get an entry to
> appear
> > under ifconfig, as well as view data from the phone using irdadump.  I
> have
> > compiled gnokii and can get it to install gnokii and gnokiid (as well as
> > todologo somehow) in the /usr/local/bin directory.  Gnokii runs fine with
> --help
> > option, but running anything else (e.g. --identify) it says
> >
> > GNOKII Version 0.4.3
> > Please check permission on lock directory
> > Lock file error. Exiting
> 
> Quick workaround:
> use_locking = no
> in the config file.
> Proper solution: learn about file permissions, gnokii needs a write
> permission to /var/lock
> 
> pkot
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