Messages in this thread |  | | From | (really ) | Date | 24 May 1996 16:11:20 +0400 | Subject | Re: NFS mounted mail from Solaris2.5 fails |
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Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= FOA 72 (chj@lin.foa.SE) wrote:
: I'm not familiar with what this means exatly, but anyway, the result is= : that the /var/mail directory has the ``sticky bit'' set for others, I = : think:
: drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 1024 May 23 19:08 /var/mail=20
: The problem is that I can't read my mail and I know that it has somethi= : ng to do with file locking. But I'm not that good on *nix that I know w= : hat to do. And yes, I've tried to get the ``system manager'' of the Sol= : aris box to turn it off. No go.
"sticky bit" has nothing to do with locking (it means that directory is readble/writable for anybody, but you can delete only your own files, this setup is usual for /tmp)
DO NOT TRY (!!!) to read mail via NFS from linux box, linux has NO locking and your mailbox will be shred by incoming mail.
I repeat: DO NOT TRY.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
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