From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 12:26:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sabmail.rresearch.com (ip18.gte13.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.150.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43D41529B for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:26:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@sabmail.rresearch.com) Received: from sabmail.rresearch.com (localhost.seanet.com [127.0.0.1]) by sabmail.rresearch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32431; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:26:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@sabmail.rresearch.com) Message-Id: <199911162026.MAA32431@sabmail.rresearch.com> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question updating mail/nmh port References: <82529.942771668@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-reply-to: <82529.942771668@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-To: Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <32428.942783961.1@sabmail.rresearch.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:26:01 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > We definitely have flock(2), so you should try to encourage nmh to use > it if possible. This might cause problems for folks whose Mail folders > are on NFS filesystems, so you might consider making it a Makefile knob > like NMH_MTS and friends. [Yes - I was thinking of making it a Makefile knob] But, is using flock(2) the default mode for the "standard" MTAs? As, I mentioned, my cursory glance through the sendmail sources (from /usr/src/contrib/sendmail on a FreeBSD-3.2 system) seemed to indicate that sendmail doesn't use flock. Granted, I didn't do an in-depth check to see what's really going on in the sendmail sources, it seems that the out-of-the-box behavior of the MUA ports/packages should match that of the MTA(s). Thanx, Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message