From: Charles Kirby Date: April 8 1999 9:30pm Subject: Re: [Start] Operation Not Supported List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1546 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I tried a program using "flock", and it ran just fine. Thanks anyway, ck On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Sasha Pachev wrote: > Charles Kirby wrote: > > > > cebu.hello.com$ ./bin/start > > MiniVend V3.12 > > > > I got as far as installing minivend on a BSDI-3.0 machine, but get this > > when I try to start it: > > > > Could not Could not lock file: Operation not supported error file 'Use of > > uninit > > ialized value at /usr/var/home/kirby/mvend/lib/Vend/Util.pm line 1366. > > ': > > Operation not supported > > to report this error: > > - - - [07/April/1999:19:19:45 -0400] - - MiniVendV3.12 > > cebu.hello.com$ > > > > I've looked thru' all documentation and the last 5 months lists, but can't > > find anything to help. > > > > This is minivend-3.12 on BSDI -3.0, i386 p60. > > > > Any ideas? Thanks,ck > > man flock > > Write a little C program that locks and unlocks a file, see if it will > compile/run, if not, your kernel probably does not suport file locking, > see if you can fix that, if everything's OK, something else is wrong. > > . > > -- > Sasha Pachev > http://www.sashanet.com >