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Article #3593Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
From: Vincent Fox
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:46
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:46
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In <C0C5Au.G88@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes: >>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. Yes, but flock only appears to work for local systems anyway. Could I just disable both flock and lockf and use dot-locking only? Would this pose any disadvantage on either the server or it's dataless clients?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!gatech!cae!cae!not-for-mail From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox? Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:46:42 -0500 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab Lines: 14 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1ia0miINNdov@cae.cad.gatech.edu> References: <1i5bcfINNmq1@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <1i5ej9INNj4g@dsinc.dsi.com> <rhoward.726024194@matd> <1i7sfrINN3n4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <C0C5Au.G88@ccu.umanitoba.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cae.cad.gatech.edu