Eric Gillespie, Jr. said: > My roommate and i are trying to share /var/cache/apt/archives and > /var/state/apt/lists over NFS.
Are you sure you want to share /var/state/apt/lists? I'm just sharing /var/cache/apt on my boxen here. > I got it working with the > user-space daemons, but running apt-get update gives the > following error: > > W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/state/apt/lists/lock > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files IIRC, that's the problem that prompted me to mount /var/cache/apt nolock. Whether it was or not, I haven't had any problems with it since adding the nolock. (Now if I could get /var/spool/mail to do locking...) -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+
