From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible problem using emacs on mounted filesystem. Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:15:50 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395879616 21962 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 00:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:20:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 01:20:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSy3R-0001nM-F0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:20:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSy3Q-0000Mm-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:20:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="85b6c0f529d0952d6aa4593b9e0d39be"; logging-data="19007"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+9C+7wgW89AlFjk1n7mrUo" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a1by2JDET0r7QyE7XGC5ncDr80A= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204506 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96775 Archived-At: In article , glen stark wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm not sure if this is an OS problem or an emacs problem. The problem > only manifests itself for me on emacs, so I'm starting there. > > I have a folder on an older linux server that I mount with the command: > > sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,uid=xxx //pdxenlin66/home/stg xenlin > > I use emacs to edit the file. I edit fine, but when I save the file, the > next time I try to edit the buffer I get the message "X changed on disk; > really edit the buffer?". > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? This is the first time I > have such an issue. > > Thanks, Glen I think this typically means that the clocks are not synchronized between the client and server. The server's clock is ahead of the client, so when you save the file its modification time is newer than the time you saved. Make sure you're running NTP on all machines to keep their clocks in sync. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***