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Started by Christoph von Stuckrad
Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:17
mush 7.2.3 looses mail on NFS !
Author: Christoph von Stuckrad
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:17
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:17
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Hello! I just tried to install mush and tracing it found out, that it (like most mail-readers it seems) does not lock mail-spool-files over nfs (!) so incoming messages during updates of the incoming mailbox will be lost ! Problem is, that 'open dot-lock-file' is not secure over NFS, but must be replaced by a sequence of 1) open a dummy-file 2) link dummy to lock-file 3) remove dummy that is because the LINK is again secure and is done directly on the host which holds the disk ! I'll look into the sources, but having little time, I would appreciate patches if somebody has done something about that already . Please respond by email to: stucki@math.fu-berlin.de -- Christoph von Stuckrad * * ! talk to ! <stucki@math.fu-berlin.de> Freie Universitaet Berlin |/__* ! nickname ! ...!unido!fub!leibniz!stucki Fachbereich Mathematik, EDV |\ * ! 'stucki' ! Tel.: 49 30 838-5916 Arnimallee 2-6 * * ! on IRC ! Fax: 49 30 838-5913
Re: mush 7.2.3 looses mail on NFS !
Author: Eiji Hirai
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:14
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:14
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You may want to make sure that /var/spool/mail (or your equivalent) is NFS mounted with the "noac" (no attribute caching) option. -- hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) : : : : : :: ::: :::: ::::: Unix Geek for Swarthmore College : : : : : :: ::: :::: ::::: Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, US. Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai. I don't speak for Swarthmore College. All Rights Reserved.
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