Change default Lock Type for sendmail ?

[Randal, Phil]

Julian,

Is there any sane way to autodetect it and just do the right thing?

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> Is it about time I changed the default setting for "Lock 
> Type" to "posix" for sendmail users?
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> It applies to most sendmail 8.13 (and upwards) users. Other 
> people would have to change it to "flock" if required.
> It's just that most newbie users will be using whatever their 
> Linux distro ships with, which is now likely to be 8.13 these 
> days, isn't it?
> 
> Opinions, please?
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