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[Denis Beauchemin]

Arthur Sherman a écrit :
>> But that's incorrect, isn't it?  Could you check the reasoning below?
>>
>> o  Given:  This system is FC5 with sendmail 8.13.6. (MS 4.54.6).
>>
>> o  MailScanner.conf has:
>>       MTA = sendmail
>>       Lock Type =
>>
>> o  Therefore, according to the comments, this should result 
>> in "posix".
>>
>> o  "posix" is, indeed, the desired and expected outcome for 
>> this system
>>    (isn't it?).
>>
>> o  BUT "maillog" is reporting
>>       ... MailScanner[26259]: Using locktype = flock
>>
>>
>> The comments say I should end up with "posix".  Maillog says 
>> I'm getting
>> "flock".  So something somewhere (possibly including my 
>> understanding!) is
>> incorrect.
>>     
>
> As far as I remember, in older versions this was flock...
> It could be a mistype in conf - however, flock rulez.
>
>
>   

I don't know if leaving it blank should do the right thing, but I have 
it set to posix on my RHEL4 servers and it works just fine.  Posix is 
the right setup for sendmail 8.13.

Denis

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