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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: 2 systems/1 spool dir
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.163251.19026@vicom.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 16:32:51 GMT
Organization: Vicom Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA
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Has anyone tried running 2 different system's uucp with a common spool
directory?  Do anyone know why it wouldn't work?

Right now I have one Sun system which runs my uucp and has the spool directory.
For performance reasons, it still runs 3.5.2.  What I would like to do is to
NFS mount the spool directory on a Sparc w/4.0.3.  The second system is only
for transmission.  Actual uucp requests would only execute one the first
system, so there won't be a problem with the SEQF.  It seems to me that the
LCK.. files would work O.K. over NFS and would prevent race conditions.

What am I missing?

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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com