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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm Date: 18 May 1996 16:25:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4nktma$ad@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mvilq$6ln@adcmail.adc.com> <4n271v$25q@golden.pvrr.ru> <4n2rg7$1uq@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4nfikh$2gf@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > : NB: the most common configuration error happens regarding the mailbox > : file locking. Select either fcntl _OR_ flock, but _DON'T_ select > : dot-style locking. > > Why not ? Doesn't popper use that ? I haven't looked into popper. If it's not configurable, i would consider it broken if it insists on dot-file locking. Dot-file locking is ugly since it requires the MUA to be setgid, and the mail spool dir to be group-writable. The only reason for using it is to work around the not-yet-existing file locking if the mail spool is NFS-mounted. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)