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From: aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva)
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Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:57:04 GMT
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In a heterogeneous environment, WATCH OUT!
We have some systems that know about the NFS lock and stat daemons,
and others that don't.  Net effect:

	unknown mailer error 1
	cannot append to /usr/mail/logname


Had to switch it off on the ones that know about it for now (I'm glad
it was configurable!)

Peter Silva			OS Support 
psilva@cid.aes.doe.ca		Dorval Computing Centre
(514) 421-4692			Atmospheric Environment Service