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[Anonymous]

Name: Admin
Email: justastan@fromru.com

Dear Michael Oertel,

I have to tell you about some problem? your chat has.
The installation is OK, the same about registration and administration, but I can't chat!!!!!!!
Logging for chatting I have this error : can't get lock, giving up.
I have read all the files in the chat package to find out the way to solve the problem.
NO BUGS NO FAQ.
I have on my system:
Apache 1.3.20
Mysql version is the newest stabel
PHP 4.23
Apache is configured successfully. I have had no problems using it.
I found the temp directory and found the LOCK file, it was empty (0 Kb)

Please show me the way of solving this.
I'm writing because your soft is really greatest one.
I respect your business.

Looking forward of your message.
Andrew B from Russia.

P.S. Sorry for disgusting language

[Michael Oertel]

Logged In: YES
user_id=98351

which OS do you use?

For a read/writer modell, we use flock() within the DB based
line buffer instead of using SEM within the SHM based line
buffer.
flock() is not supported on antiquated filesystems like FAT
and its derivates and will therefore always return FALSE
under this environments (this is especially true for Windows
98 users).
see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.flock.php