Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

[Mike Diehl]

On Monday 30 November 2009 10:56:17 am Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 30 November 2009 05:54:31 Mike Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory.
> > Now I'm having trouble with kmail.  It seems that the permissions on
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed...
> >
> > What I'm seeing is this:
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx 5 mdiehl users  4096 2009-11-28 03:41 .
> > drwx------ 8 mdiehl mdiehl 4096 2009-11-29 18:43 ..
> > d????????? ? ?      ?         ?                ? cur
> > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users  4096 2009-09-02 19:32 new
> > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users  4096 2009-11-29 18:43 tmp
>
> That is indicative of filesystem corruption where the kernel cannot read
> the directory for whatever reason. The server should always be able to read
> the inode for cur/ and read the owner/permissions data

The server sees the file permissions just fine; this is what the CLIENT sees.

> What nfs options are in use, both client and server side?

I used this fstab entry on the client:
10.0.1.1:/home  /home   nfs     defaults        0       0

> > Then, after a while, the permissions get changed to something more sane
> > without me having done anything.
>
> Permissions don't just magically change. Either a cron runs that changes
> things, or a circumstance changes to allow the client to see the directory

I don't have any cron jobs running.  I'm not doing anything to change the 
circumstances in such a way that the permissions should change.  I litteraly 
type kmail until it starts.

> > I've googled for this and not found anything.  Strangely, kmail won't
> > start unless it can read my sent-mail folder.
>
> That's not strange at all, an MUA that can't use it's sent folder is pretty
> useless as an MUA

It would be nice to at least be able to READ my messages without sent-mail 
permissions....

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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.