[Remind-Fans] Unable to access data -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 02/01/2013 07:07 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:04:00 +1100
> "shelagh.manton at gmail.com"<shelagh.manton at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Remind will refuse to read world-writable files.
>
>>>     "Can't write reminder file "mnt/BOX48/rem/reminders"
>
>     Does the directory /mnt/BOX48/rem exist?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     David.
>
>
>         Ok, now my server problems are fixed. I had stopper a system
>         update before it finished and corrupted the kernel.
>
>         Now I am still unable to use remind from the SL6.3 computer.
>         This is what I see:
>
>             [bobg at box7 ~]$ /usr/bin/tkremind  /mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders
>
>             TkRemind Copyright (C) 1996-1998 David F. Skoll
>             Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
>
>             and an error message:   Can't write reminder file
>                                     '/mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders'
>
>         Other data is read from the NFS server e.g. Notecase.
>
>         And an Fedora 18 computer reads and writes to  the same remind
>         file without problems.
>
>         I have been looking at permissions, groups, etc, without
>         seeing any differences between the working F-18 box and this
>         Sciantific Linux  one? Both operating systems are to computers
>         that were running F-17 without any problem.
>
>         One other thing, I can create a remind file in this computer
>         instead of on the server and it will work. The parts seem to
>         work individually but not together.
>
>         Any suggestions appreciated,
>
>         Bob
>
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>
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>         box7   Scientific Linux 6.3
>