Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:26:01 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question updating mail/nmh port Message-ID: <199911162026.MAA32431@sabmail.rresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <82529.942771668@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <82529.942771668@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> 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
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