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- From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 18:36:46 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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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:
- >>>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.
-
- >>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.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Hmmmm. I did apply a pile of patches to my 4.1.2, one of which was 100075-08,
- >which claims to fix all the evils of rpc.lockd. Perhaps it is actually
- >causing the problem in this case. I will revert to the old copy and see
- >what that does.
-
- Yep, I reverted to rpc.lockd.FCS on the clients and no problems. I'm not
- sure this is such a great idea though since there were so many things
- wrong with the original lockd. Oh well, maybe Sun actually has *another*
- fix by now. I'm still running the revised rpc.lockd on the server and
- it all seems to work okay. Strange......
-
- [grumble grumble]
-
-