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Article #4955Re: central mail server
From: Keith Moore
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1988 04:32
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1988 04:32
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Someone asked (regarding mail delivery software on NFS systems):
> How do you deal with record locking over NFS?
To which Bill Nowicki <nowicki%rose@Sun.COM> replied:
>The standard mail software does not use record locking, so it is not an
>issue. Note that in SunOS 4.0 the scheme using NFS to mount your
>mailbox (now /var/spool/mail) is fully supported.
[...]
This is fine if you happen to be using Suns and running SunOS 4.0. However,
several other kinds of machines use NFS now and even some of us who use Suns
have good reasons for not running SunOS 4.x. We would still like to be able
to access our /{usr,var}/spool/mail files on a server from different machines.
It would be even nicer if the method chosen were compatable with that used
by SunOS 4.x.
Perhaps the original question should have been:
How does the mail software deal with *file* locking over NFS?
Can anyone answer this one?
Keith Moore
UT Computer Science Dept. Internet/CSnet: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus BITNET: moore@utkcs1
Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 Telephone: +1 615 974 0822
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!utkcs2!moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu From: moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: central mail server Keywords: mail NFS Message-ID: <584@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Date: 7 Oct 88 04:32:09 GMT References: <363@asuvax.UUCP> <464@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <9449@swan.ulowell.edu> <71964@sun.uucp> Sender: news@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu Reply-To: moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Organization: CS Dept -- University of TN, Knoxville Lines: 25