[Remind-Fans] Unable to access data -

[shelagh.manton at gmail.com]

Just a wild suggestion. Maybe the file needs to be writeable by world?
so chmod a+w your reminder file might be all that is needed. But of course
this might have implications for other security problems.

any thoughts from more experienced users?

Shelagh

On 2 February 2013 10:53, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

>
>    I have to NFS servers, both with the same problem:
>
>        [bobg at box7 ~]$ /usr/bin/tkremind
> /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/**stuff.ncd
>
>        TkRemind Copyright (C) 1996-1998 David F. Skoll
>        Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
>        Error in startup script: Reminders for Friday, 1st February,
>        2013 (today):
>
>        child process exited abnormally
>             while executing
>        "exec -keepnewline $Remind -g -q -r $ReminderFile 2>/dev/null"
>             (procedure "ShowTodaysReminders" line 25)
>             invoked from within
>        "ShowTodaysReminders"
>             (procedure "main" line 19)
>             invoked from within
>        "main"
>             (file "/usr/bin/tkremind" line 2936)
>
>    I recently upgraded from Fedora 17 to 18 one one computer, I
>    replaced F-18 with Scientific Linux 6.3 on this one, both protest
>    "Can't write reminder file "mnt/BOX48/rem/reminders"
>
>    The server seems to be mounted and I can "ls" the files:
>
>        [bobg at box7 ~]$ ll /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/**stuff.ncd
>        -rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 1095795 Feb  1 12:18
>        /mnt/BOX48/notecase/notecase/**stuff.ncd
>
>    Setting SELinux to permissive does not seem to make any difference.
>    It looks like the remind file is damaged ...
>
>    I don't know that this is enough information to work with but I am
>    lost at this point.
>
>    Any suggestion what to look at next will be appreciated.
>
>    Bob
>
>    --
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>
>    box7   Scientific Linux 6.3
>
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