[plug] Keeping a running server clean

[Bernd Felsche]

James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> writes:
>In message <417B125B.3070204 at tigris.org>
>on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:24:27AM +0800, Tim White wrote:
>> Netware server. Novel ring a bell? That's netware. Nothing to do with 
>> Linux until the next release.

>Yes, I understand it's Novel Netware, but I have no experience with it.
>Since this is the PLUG list, I assumed it was a Linux- or UNIX-related

Ignore for now that Linux can look like a Netware server just as
much as it can look like an NT server. :-)

Google for "marsnwe"

>question. I think you are saying that the Netware server runs with a BSD
>kernel and has directories like /tmp and programmes like 'cron', but is
>not Linux per se. So, if you want help with locking, it still sounds
>like a bit of a mystery to me. I would presume that Netware uses
>Windows-like locking mechanisms, but these are sometimes quite different
>to what is found in UNIX. If Netware uses a custom BSD kernel, I think
>you're going to have to look for Netware-specific information, not Linux
>information. Hopefully those on this list who use Netware will read this
>thread, but perhaps you should rename the subject to '[OT] Netware'.
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