[Remind-Fans] Unable to access data -

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On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>         --
>>         http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
>>
>>         box7   Scientific Linux 6.3
>>
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Is this a question or an update? Hard to tell with the quoting and formatting...

>From SL6.3 (not sure what that is), can you manually edit and save the
same file? Even try just:

$ touch  /mnt/HOME1/rem/reminders

and see if it updates the access time on the file?