Mounting a webdav directory

[Phillip Susi]

Look in /var/run for pid files.


Richard Barry wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using davfs2 to mount a webdav directory locally.  I get it working
> after I install davfs2, but then after I restart I cannot mount the
> directory again.  I get the following error message:
> 
> /usr/lib/mount.davfs-2.6: Could not open pid-file
> 
> I tried looking in the /var/lock and /var/run directories for something
> I can delete to make it work again, but I can't find anything obvious:
> 
> $ls /var/lock
> evms-engine  lvm
> 
> $ ls /var/run
> acpid.socket  dbus               klogd                samba
> atd.pid       dhclient.eth0.pid  laptop-mode-enabled  screen
> crond.pid     gdm.pid            laptop-mode-state    sdp
> crond.reboot  hal                mdadm.pid            syslogd.pid
> cups          hplip              network              utmp
> 
> Reintalling davfs2 fixes it, but there has to be some way I can get it
> to just work.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS I'm running Dapper
> 
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