Elm with NFS

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1 total messages Started by Chris Ritson Wed, 03 Oct 1990 16:36

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Author: Chris Ritson
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 16:36

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Here  is  a  slightly  different permutation of a question I have seen
asked before.  As usual, I forgot to save the answers...

We have got a room full of  dataless  workstations,  where  a  student
needs  to  be  able  to  go to any one of them to read mail.  The HOME
directory will be NFS mounted, but hopefully not the mail spool area.

Mail will be delivered to the user's home machine.  How can  the  user
then invoke elm and not get trouble with locking.  What we could do is
give  people  .forward  files which cause filter to save all mail in a
standard place in the user's home  directory.   What  does  filter  do
about   locking?    What   happens   if  mail  arrives  while  elm  is
reading/writing the users mail folder.

Chris Ritson
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