Ashley M. Kirchner said: > > Someone explain to me again why mounting /var/spool/mail over NFS > isn't a good idea? Something about locking issues and/or monitoring the > NFS mount? Is there some sort of work around to the problem?
yes locking issues. The only way around it is to use a mailer that doesn't depend so heavily on locking. I think Courier IMAP with Maildir is the only one I'm aware of that I've read is "safe" to use over NFS. That said I still wouldn't use it over NFS myself, I'm paranoid. ============ http://www.courier-mta.org/imapd.html The File Alteration Monitor package, FAM, must be properly installed and configured prior to installing Courier-IMAP. FAM is an application library that provides an interface to the operating system's kernel that applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed, and Courier-IMAP leverages this API to implement realtime concurrent folder status updates. According to the most recently available documentation, FAM builds and runs on Linux and IRIX. FAM should also build on other platform, but without a supported kernel monitor FAM will fall back to a polling mode. At press time, FAM's web site reports that FAM succesfully builds (in polling mode) on FreeBSD and Solaris. FAM also works with NFS filesystems. On NFS clients fam transparently forwards file monitoring requests to a peer fam process on the NFS server. ======== (not sure if the above is directly related to spooling mail on NFS but I think it is..) nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
