NFS mounted mail from Solaris2.5 fails

Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= FOA 72 (chj@lin.foa.se)
Thu, 23 May 1996 19:20:05 +0200


Is this a problem related to the recent ``flock|fcntl'' discussion or a=
m I just missing some trivial point. Our mail server is running Solaris=
2.5 an the /etc/dfs/dfstab entry for its /var/mail is this:

share -F nfs -o root=3Djam:lucas:rama:vega:chip:meteor:assar:razor:ba=
mse:orion:hagbard:volga:mozart:karin:puh:jonas:watson:shannon,rw=3Djam:=
lucas:rama:vega:chip:meteor:assar:razor:bamse:orion:hagbard:volga:mozar=
t:karin:puh:jonas:watson:shannon:pc7201:pc7202:pc7203:pc7204:pc7205:pc7=
206:pc7207:pc7208:pc7209:pc7210:pc7211:pc7212:pc7213:pc7214:pc7215:pc72=
16:pc7217:pc7218:pc7219:pc7220:pc7221:pc7222:pc7222 -d "/var/mail" /=
var/mail=20

I'm not familiar with what this means exatly, but anyway, the result is=
that the /var/mail directory has the ``sticky bit'' set for others, I =
think:

drwxrwxrwt 3 root mail 1024 May 23 19:08 /var/mail=20

The problem is that I can't read my mail and I know that it has somethi=
ng to do with file locking. But I'm not that good on *nix that I know w=
hat to do. And yes, I've tried to get the ``system manager'' of the Sol=
aris box to turn it off. No go.

Any pointers are most welcome.

--=20
Christian J=F6nsson chj@lin.foa.se
Nat. Def. Res. Est., Dep't of C&C Warf Tech
Division of Communication Systems FOA 72