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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Is it safe to mount /usr/spool/mail?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:25:11 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1993Jan5.023200.23383@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan5.023200.23383@fcom.cc.utah.edu> efros@leopard.east-slc.edu (Alyosha Efros) writes:
- >Before doing anything drastic I was wondering if it is safe to mount
- >/usr/spool/mail from one machine to the others so all mail will be in one
- >place. We are running Ultrix.
-
- It's pretty safe if you only use this mount for *reading* mail. You should
- do delivery by having all the mailers forward to one host (probably the
- host on which the /usr/spool/mail file system actually resides) rather than
- deliver directly into /usr/spool/mail. Otherwise you will likely run into
- problems when multiple hosts try to deliver to a mail file simultaneously,
- as many locking schemes don't work well across NFS.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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