From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 09:26:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03210 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03203 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18927 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:26:45 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199801221726.LAA18927@home.dragondata.com> Subject: /var/mail nfs corruption To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:26:44 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I operate a rather busy shell account service... Big enough that we have multiple shell machines. /var/mail is exported on our main NFS server to all the shell servers. Users keep complaining that their mail files are getting really corrupted badly, and that they are losing mail. If they use elm/pine on the machine that actually receives the incoming mail, they're fine, but if they use elm/pine on a machine with /var/mail mounted, they lose things like crazy. Am I missing a step here, or is this just normal for dealing with nfs? Kevin