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- From: good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Problems integrating HP700-Cluster in SUN-Environment
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.222817.14901@gdwest.gd.com>
- Organization: General Dynamics Corp.
- References: <1992Jul21.162656.159@mr.med.ge.com> <1992Jul22.230451.14563@gdwest.gd.com> <1992Jul23.083603.19127@hsr.no>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:28:17 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Jul23.083603.19127@hsr.no> bjarne@hsr.no (Bjarne Steinsbo) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.230451.14563@gdwest.gd.com>, good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good) writes:
- >> We also tried to set up a central mail server for our HPs and Suns. We had
- >> some problems (the details of which I don't recall), and came to the
- >> conclusion that the Suns and HPs expect different ownerships and permissions
- >> on mail files, and that that was causing the difficulty. We have since
- >> set up two mail servers, one Sun and one HP. Is this evaluation correct,
- >> or is the problem just the aforementioned NFS bug? Has anyone managed to get
- >> a Sun to work as a mail server for HPs or vice versa?
- >
- >We are currently using a Sun3/280 running SunOS 4.1.1 as a mailserver for
- >all our Suns and HPs (720s and 730s running 8.07). Initially we had
- >problems with locking-bugs, but they disappeared when we installed the
- >"100075-07" patch for Suns on the server.
- >
- >We have not had any problems with ownership/permissions, but then we only
- >let the mailserver deliver new mail to the spool area, the other machines
- >aren't even running sendmail.
- >
-
- Hmmm. We're running sendmail on all of our machines. Maybe that's the
- problem. What are the advantages/disadvantages of not running sendmail?
-
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- David Good good@gdwest.gd.com
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