Change default Lock Type for sendmail ?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
    Hmmm, I don't ever remember fiddling with this knob.  It is blank
right now in my setup: Solaris 9, MS 4.50.9, sendmail 8.13.5.  I know
that us Solaris geezers are a dying breed.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:31:22 +0000
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> Subject: Change default Lock Type for sendmail ?
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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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