Re: [Q] Mail spool dir okay over nfs?

1997-10-08 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 04:43:31PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: > Is it completely safe to use, say, elm, to process the /var/spool/mail > directory over nfs in Debian 1.3.1? I know at some time there was a > problem with different locking conventions resulting in lost or scrambled > mailboxes; have

[Q] Mail spool dir okay over nfs?

1997-10-02 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, Is it completely safe to use, say, elm, to process the /var/spool/mail directory over nfs in Debian 1.3.1? I know at some time there was a problem with different locking conventions resulting in lost or scrambled mailboxes; have they been long resolved? The host runs sendmail, or sometimes s