John,
What I am doing is running sendmail+cyrus in a Failover configuration. For
example, I have two a two node cluster, I want to be able to run two
independant mail servers. One mail server would run on node A and the other
mail server would run on node B. If there is a failure of Disk, Network,
... on node B, I want to be able to fail over to the mail server running on
node B to Node A. That would mean that I would have to run two mail servers
(master) on node A until I fixed node B.
I realize that I could do this running only one master, but the compexity of
changing the /etc/cyrus.conf and HUP'ing the master process would not be as
clean as running two master's on the same server.
I hope this answers your questions, and I welcome any more questions.
Greg
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:16:18AM -0400, John C. Amodeo wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Out of curiosity, what advantage to you gain by running several masters? What are
>you trying
> to accomplish?
>
> -John
>
> Greg Hewett wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I found it necessary to have multiple master process running on the same
> > server, so I patched 2.0.16 to accept the -C option. I tried to stay
> > consistant with the way that the other alternate config was done in the other
> > applications. I probably do not need to send the patch because it is such a
> > trivial change, but I want to express my desire to get this feature into the
> > supported source tree.
> >
> > Thanks for this fabulous piece of software!!
> >
> > Comments appreciated.
> >
> > Greg Hewett
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > cyrus-imapd-2.0.16-masteraltconfig.patchName:
>cyrus-imapd-2.0.16-masteraltconfig.patch
> > Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
