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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:53:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.lockd on 2.2.5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322195241.12360G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803102004.PAA28391@rstcorp.com>

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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



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