Re: Gnome/(KDE?) NFS home dir base locks

[andrew cis uoguelph ca]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 andrew cis uoguelph ca wrote:

> Gnome wants to make a lock file based in the user's home directory.
> This is problematic if the home directory is NFS mounted, as the
> lock then is expected to be manged using statd and/or lockd.  The
> history of statd/lockd has been at best chequered; not just in the
> Linux community but in general.

I just got a wonderful email from one of the Gnome developers, so I
can answer my own question -- if users set the variable
    GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1
then locks are held in /tmp rather than ~, which neatly solves the
problem.

Regards,
Andrew.