Bug 10156

Summary:	Default installed elm only supports flock for file locking
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alisdair Davey <ard>
Component:	elm	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description Alisdair Davey 2000-03-13 22:53:40 UTC

The default installation of elm in RH6.1 only supports flock for file
locking. flock of course does not work over NFS. If your mail spool is
NFS mounted from another machine you need to use either the dot style
locking or fcntl style.
Thanks

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-03-15 12:36:59 UTC

Since Red Hat 5.2, all mail user agents use only fcntl locking. fcntl locking
works if you start rpc.lockd correctly. Otherwise please report as a bug
against knfsd.