Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 03:13:14 -0500 (EST) From: Hoss Firooznia <hfir@math.rochester.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rpc.lockd broken in 2.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970404025842.24906A-100000@poincare.math.rochester.edu>
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Hello!
(I apologize if there's a better forum for this question, but I've
searched the handbook, FAQ, and mailing list archives without being
able to find a satisfactory answer.)
What is the status of rpc.lockd in 2.2-RELEASE? I've noticed that the
daemon actually exists in /usr/sbin, but its invocation is commented
out of /etc/rc with the following note:
# Warning: rpc.lockd is broken.
# Only uncomment this line if the consequences are fully understood.
I'd uncomment the invocation, but unfortunately I don't fully
understand the consequences as I can't find an explanation of what
exactly is broken. Can someone help me, or at point me in the right
direction, please?
>From what I've gathered from the freebsd-questions archives, it looks
like there was a "dummy" rpc.lockd in earlier version of FreeBSD that
would accept lock requests, but not really do any locking. Is this
still the case?
The reason I'm asking: at my site we have a number of machines
mounting /var/mail over NFS, in our case from an Indy acting as a mail
hub. IRIX's rpc.lockd seems to do the job, as so far we haven't had
any problems with corrupted mail spools -- although this may simply be
good fortune at work. :-} I'd love to replace the Indy with a FreeBSD
box, but I don't want to risk jeopardizing the mail spools.
In the case that there's no working version of rpc.lockd available for
FreeBSD, does anyone know if there are versions for {Net,Open}BSD that
might be easily ported?
Thanks very much,
- Hoss
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Hoss Firooznia | hfir@math.rochester.edu
Department of Mathematics | URL: http://www.math.rochester.edu/u/hfir/
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