Debian sendmail start script

[Dominik L. Borkowski]

    [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

On Monday 20 December 2004 01:09 pm, Scott Silva wrote:
> | 2. I noticed that the standard Debian testing sendmail 8.13 supplied with
> | sendmail does not seem to be complied with HASFLOCK yet the default
> |
> |         Lock Type =
> |
> | Setting is blank. Shouldn't that be set to:
> |
> |         Lock Type = posix
>
> I do believe the Sendmail people know that Flock is broken in 8.13.
> I have seen several recommendations to use posix locking.

I can second that. After moving to 8.13 on some occasions we started to get
'No message collected' e-mails. We found that using Lock type = posix in MS
fixed this issue.

dom

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!