From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 00:14:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA09955 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:14:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA09923 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA14513; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:14:00 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13034; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:14:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id IAA11248; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 08:58:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602190758.IAA11248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 08:58:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: rashid@rk.ios.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602190213.MAA07762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 19, 96 12:43:36 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)