From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Cesar Romani <cesar.romani@gmail.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:13:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <110710101331.ZM8581@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ivccid$ek3$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Jul 10, 9:22am, Cesar Romani wrote:
} Subject: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or direc
}
} I'm using zsh 4.3.12-dev-1
} Whenever I start zsh I always get the following message:
} zsh: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or
} directory: reading anyway
This probably means that your system doesn't support zsh's preferred
form of locking, so zsh is trying to create a file in the directory
named by your $TMPPREFIX. Does *that* directory exist? What do you
see if you run
print =(:)
? Do you change TMPPREFIX at any time in your startup files?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 14:22 Cesar Romani
2011-07-10 16:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-07-13 13:50 ` Cesar Romani
2011-07-13 14:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-07-13 14:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-13 18:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-07-14 15:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-10 17:13 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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