On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 15:35, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:28 -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:56, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > Ditto /var/spool. > > > > > > IMAP and remote smtp server, or something along those lines. Print > > > servers. > > > > > > You could have "writable /var" as a possible configuration, too. > > > > You can get away with most of that except when the CxO box dies while an > > email was being sent and its gone. Murphy seems to strike on this one > > more than statistically should be possible... > > If you're doing direct SMTP, then having a writable /var doesn't help in > this case, either. Hopefully your mail client saves to a file (which > would be in the home dir) and then does the smtp transaction, removing > the file from the home dir after that succeeds. > The boxes were configured to use the local SMTP for some reason (I dont know.. I just had to debug the problem). Thus the mail went from client -> sendmail/var/spool/clientmqueue -> power-outage ooops The solution was to set up /var/spool/ as a NFS mounted rw. [Getting the 200+ clients to do direct writes and hoping the client did the write thing with a temp file was left to a grad student who is probably still rueing the day he crossed my path.] > Jeremy -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- You should consider any operational computer to be a security problem --
