Need confirmation on Posix/flock settings

[dnsadmin 1bigthink.com]

At 05:45 PM 12/8/2006, you wrote:

>dnsadmin 1bigthink.com spake the following on 12/8/2006 2:20 PM:
> > 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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>I think that sendmail 8.13 is not compiled with flock support on any linux
>version or kernel. The only way I know for sure is to run the following on the
>suspected system;
>sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | grep HASFLOCK and see if it matches.
>If it returns blank, then use posix.

Thanks again Scott. That answered it.

Cheers,
Glenn