Change default Lock Type for sendmail ?

[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 1/23/2006 9:57 AM:
> Pentland G. wrote:
>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info wrote:
>>  
>>> Can't the output of  "sendmail -d0.13 -bt </dev/null | grep FLOCK" be
>>> used?
>>> My 8.12 box returns a line, my 8.13 doesn't........
>>>     
>>
>> As echoed elsewhere... this may OK on Linux but on BSD/Solaris it is not
>> reliable...
>>
>> I think that whatever the "default" is it should be well documented and
>> set up so that if it is not set by a human then MS will not start...
>> maybe have it as a question in install.sh?
>>
>> ./install.sh
>> ...
>> ...
>> Are you using flock (yes/no)?  * if you don't know what this means
>> then type "no".
>>
>>  
>> Just another maybe, and the Solaris/BSD people will be less likely to
>> get caught out.
>>   
> But the Solaris people tend to know more what they are doing. As it
> stands with flock being the default, the people caught out are the
> people who predominantly know the least (the Linux point-and-click
> crowd). With the default being posix, the people caught out are the
> people who know a lot more.
> 
> I have never asked the users before which to go for, and it hasn't
> generated many problems, so I don't see this as a huge issue really. The
> install.sh works everything else out for itself, I don't want to make it
> interactive if I can possibly avoid it.
> 
Won't posix locking work either way, maybe just a little slower?
That would make posix a "safe" setting. Or maybe I'm just a little slow this
Monday...  ;-)



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