sendmail greet_pause feature

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Same here.  running Solaris 9 with sendmail 8.13.5.  I've never
touched the Lock Type setting.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Anthony Peacock wrote:

> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:32:50 +0000
> From: Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
> 
> Hi,
>
> Joost Waversveld wrote:
>> You must force posix locking... The standard will be flock locking. I 
>> thought Julian is thinking about changing the standard to posix, but at the 
>> moment the standard is still "flock"
>> 
>> So it must be "Lock Type = posix" for you... ;)
>
> Is this true for all OSs?
>
> I am using Sendmail 8.13 and the default locking on Solaris and I am not 
> having any problems at all.  I always thought the advice was only change this 
> if you are having problems.  I also recall that the requirement for posix 
> locking is dependent on the OS.
>
> Grateful for any correction.
>
>
>> 
>> Joost Waversveld
>> 
>> ----- Message from wmcdonald at gmail.com ---------
>>    Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:53:08 +0000
>>    From: Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature
>>      To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> 
>> 
>>> On 01/02/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Linux, sendmail 8.13 and upwards needs posix, anything before 8.13
>>>> needs flock.
>>> 
>>> Is locking autodetecting, if you see what I mean? In the
>>> MailScanner.conf it says...
>>> 
>>> # How to lock spool files.
>>> # Don't set this unless you *know* you need to.
>>> # For sendmail, it defaults to "flock".
>>> # For sendmail 8.13 onwards, you will probably need to change it to posix.
>>> # For Exim, it defaults to "posix".
>>> # No other type is implemented.
>>> Lock Type =
>>> 
>>> Does MailScanner *know* I'm running 8.13 or should I force posix locking?
>>> 
>>> Will.
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