Help converting to a new Linux server

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Nathan Lehman (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:12:41 -0400):

> filePro 5.0.14D9
> Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10

[... moved from Netware to Linux ...]

> One of the issues we are having with this new server is dealing with
> file locks.  I find it really hard to find out who is locking a key
> file.  The way we do it now is to run ncpcon from the server.  However
> this just shows everyone accessing the key file, not the one(s)
> locking it.

Get a copy of my showlock program, perhaps with Bob Stockler's lock.info
wrapper.

> I found after the first day that we needed to set all filePro files
> with the -sh (shareable) attribute.  That really helped.

Why?  What problems were you having, and how did it help?  I'm not
familiar with a "shareable" attribute under Linux.  How, exactly, did
you set this?

> However I'm
> not good enough at linux to know how to change all files in my filePro
> and fp folders and have it change the attributes in every file
> including the files in subfolders.  Right now I have to go into each
> folder and change all the files in that folder, then move to the next
> folder and do the same thing.

Use the setperms script that filePro includes.  That's all that you
should have to do.

> One other problem that seems to be occurring more often on this server
> is freechain rebuilds.  I'm not quite sure why this is happening more
> often.

Add PFCHECKLOCK=ON to the filePro config file and see if you have any
unprotected lookups being modified.  (Note, however, that this would
have caused problems in Netware as well, if you had more than one
person in at a time.)

> I guess I would just like to know if anyone has any tips or tweaks in
> general for running filePro from my new linux server and if anyone has
> any suggestions for the problems listed.  Thanks so much in advance.

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