sharing /var/spool/mail between hosts

From: Rainer Landes <rlandes_at_fphws01.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 09:57:03 +0100

Hello all,

on VMS-Clusters it was possible to access incoming mail on any host
in the cluster.

Trying to imitate this on my DEC Unix machines in one NIS domain,
I think I just could NFS-mount the directory /var/spool/mail on
every unix host in the NIS domain.

Question: How do I lock mail processes on the different hosts from
accidentially accessing mail files at the same time and so clobbering
the files?

Any pointers and hints welcome.

Rainer Landes, eMail: Computer-Administration_at_Physik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Tel(+49)721 608 3578 http://www-comp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/
Computer facilities of the Faculty of Physics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, GER
Received on Tue Feb 11 1997 - 10:47:30 NZDT

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