Re: mail file locking

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From: Graham Crawford
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:00

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Keir Vaughan-Taylor (keir@es.su.oz.au) wrote:
: I have installed Solaris 2.5
: When I boot I get an error message that /var/mail should be
: mounted with actime set and will lead to problems with
: lock files. Sure enough I am have problems with lock files
: but unfortunately none of the man entries or answerbook has any
: reference to actime.
: Anyone know anything about this ?
: -- 
: Keir Vaughan-Taylor  
: Computer Systems Administrator           
: Geology and Geophysics                  
: University of Sydney

take a look at mount_nfs(1m), you're looking for
actimeo (not actime)... Simply set the mount options
in /etc/vfstab to bg,actimeo=0

--
Graham Crawford
Tortuga Technologies Pty Ltd
36 Alderley Ave, Alderley, Qld, 4051, Australia

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From: gcr@celsius.oz.au (Graham Crawford)
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Date: 1996/07/24
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