From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 19:53:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07673 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07656 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12405; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Viren R. Shah" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpc.lockd on 2.2.5-STABLE In-Reply-To: <199803102004.PAA28391@rstcorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote: > Does anyone know what the state of rpc.lockd is in 2.2.5-STABLE? > The rc.conf line for it says that it is broken, but the man page for > it only says that , to paraphrase "it is implemented for the NFS > server side, but not for the NFS client side". > So, will rpc.lockd work on an NFS server? (2.2.5-STABLE, NFSv2) Perhaps. The lockd protocol is not well specified. > On a slightly different note: How bad is NFS-mounting mailboxes from a > FreeBSD NFS-server? Unless the other end supports lockd, don't. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message