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In <1i7sfrINN3n4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:

>In <rhoward.726024194@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>>syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>>>vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
>[Regarding using Elm 2.4 pl17 on remote machines]
>>>>2)That all 3 forms of locking were appropriate.

>>>If you are remote locking, the flock will not work (its local
>>>only).... Use of fcntl for remote will work if the 'lockd' is
>>>running however.  (Now, I wonder if I have that backwards....)

>>I have set up to use all 3 forms of locking on my SunOS 4.1.2 Suns
>>and also have /var/spool/mail NFS mounted.  It works fine....I
>>do have rpc.lockd running.

>It' obviosly a lockd related problem. I pop open my Console window, and
>for every attempt to lock the mailbox I get:
>lock-manager: RPC error: (9) RPC: Program/version mismatch

I'd recommend not using fcntl locking in elm.  Sun's mail programs,
bin/mail, ucb/mail, and mailtool only use flock and file locking.
You will avoid many problems with the lock manager this way.  Until
Sun starts using fcntl locking, I think we should avoid it too.
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