[Dovecot] Unbreakable NFS locking issues...

Rod Treweek rtreweek at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 20:22:36 EET 2008


I'm also noticing that the INDEX=/usr/local/mail/indexes/ path is completely
empty....shouldn't this get populated if the config is getting read
properly?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Rod Treweek <rtreweek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  I also forgot to mention that this is on FreeBSD
> 6.3. Not sure if that makes a difference.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
>
>> Rod Treweek wrote:
>>
>>>    Yeah, Sorry, still kind of figuring out list protocol. Thanks for the
>>> responses.
>>>
>>> I've not built this system, but I've inherited the responsibility of
>>> maintaining it, so I'm still kind of trying to gradually learn about how
>>> everything works together.
>>>
>>> I think that the main things are:
>>>
>>> fcntl; pretty sure that dotlock is what we should be using, however, I
>>> was
>>> under the impression that lockd would/could deal with the file locking
>>> issues, if it were present on both client and server.
>>>
>>>
>> Maybe, maybe not. I'd try dotlock and see if it helps.
>>
>> ~Seth
>>
>
>


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