Need confirmation on Posix/flock settings

dnsadmin 1bigthink.com dnsadmin at 1bigthink.com
Fri Dec 8 22:20:05 GMT 2006


At 04:57 PM 12/8/2006, you wrote:

>dnsadmin 1bigthink.com spake the following on 12/8/2006 11:21 AM:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I recently upgraded with the current ClamAV/SpamAssassin tarball and had
> > flock set after SpamAssassin upgrade, but I seem to remember that I was
> > advised to run Posix on a 2.6x kernel.
> >
> > I am running mailscanner-4.50.15-1 from RPM install and latest
> > ClamAV/SpamAsassin install on CentOS 4.4, kernel 2.6.
> >
> > Please confirm; I should be running locking-type = posix, correct???
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn
> >
>Posix with sendmail 8.13 on linux. Centos 4.4 has sendmail 8.13.
>If running on postfix, your answer will follow from those more 
>knowledgeable...
>
>

Thanks Scott! Yep, that's got me!

Now one more question, though; it's flock on kernel 2.4, isn't it?

I also have a mailserver on Whitebox 3.x. same 
MailScanner/SpamAssassin version, sendmail 8.12.x. Yes, I know.. I'd 
love to upgrade it, but I can't at the moment.

Thanks,
Glenn Parsons

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