Re: NFS Diskless Boot
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
>Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> - qmail can't read from its message queue, despite the fact all the
>> permissions are the same as on a working system. The error is
>> "access denied". However, qmail will work fine if setup to forward
>> to another SMTP host.
>>
>> I am doing this on a 10Mbps coaxial Ethernet network.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>Delivering mail onto nfs is very high risk. One problem is that if
>remove a file then reuse its name (or its inode) nfs might give you the
>old file again.
>
>The best solution is to just use an mx record to get the mail to go
>to the machine with a proper mail queue. And probably use something
>like ssmtp as the local mail transport agent.
True. But Qmail doesn't really do anything overly strange with files AFAIK
and it should work the same over NFS as over local disks. I think that the
issue is that the Qmail problem is a symptom of larger problems with NFS.
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