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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 08:58:58 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        rashid@rk.ios.com
Subject:   Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed
Message-ID:  <199602190758.IAA11248@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602190213.MAA07762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 19, 96 12:43:36 pm

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > 	So the Big Question is: will it WORK ???
> 
> Er.  You might have to fiddle sendmail to lock mailboxes in an alternative
> fashion.

Sendmail has no deal with mailboxes.  It's /usr/libexec/mail.local.

You could perhaps use elm's dot-file locking scenario on NFS, though
this requires setgid binaries.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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