From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 12:27:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA00772 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00730 Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id PAA10929; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id PAA07158; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:26:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:26:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Gary Palmer cc: Nik Clayton , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS and NIS between two 2.1-STABLE machines In-Reply-To: <995.829851580@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote in message ID > <199604181018.LAA10291@plum.blueberry.co.uk>: > > As an example, I recall someone saying that NFS locking code isn't there > > yet, and I imagine that'll have ramifications for mail delivery if > > it occurs on exported filesystems. > > No, NFS locking isn't there. And I would really recommend having mail > delivered to just one machine (makes admin even easier ... only one > /var/mail to worry about filling up :-) ). If people want to read > their mail on the 2nd box, POP is a good solution. It'll allow them to > read it on any box on the network actually. > Ack...POP? :( Grab a copy of Pine, and use IMAP for mail off of one central mail spool. Nice and clean :) Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org