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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:20:53 GMT
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- In <1i7sfrINN3n4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
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- >In <rhoward.726024194@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
- >>syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) 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.
-
- >>>If you are remote locking, the flock will not work (its local
- >>>only).... Use of fcntl for remote will work if the 'lockd' is
- >>>running however. (Now, I wonder if I have that backwards....)
-
- >>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.
-
- >It' obviosly a lockd related problem. I pop open my Console window, and
- >for every attempt to lock the mailbox I get:
- >lock-manager: RPC error: (9) RPC: Program/version mismatch
-
- I'd recommend not using fcntl locking in elm. Sun's mail programs,
- bin/mail, ucb/mail, and mailtool only use flock and file locking.
- You will avoid many problems with the lock manager this way. Until
- Sun starts using fcntl locking, I think we should avoid it too.
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
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