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- From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:27:26 GMT
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- I'm wondering if anybody has a suggestion on a problem I have with
- the way my network of Suns is currently configured. We have a central
- machine which receives most mail and stores it in a mail spool directory
- which is NFS mounted from about 35 other Suns. This allows people to access
- their mail from any machine on the network. Likewise their home directory,
- (just about all of those 35 machines) is (auto) NFS mounted on the server
- and other machines on the network. My problem is that whenever mail for a
- user comes in; the server machine has to automount their home directory in
- order to determine if they have a .forward file. This is particularily
- annoying when a mass mailing occurs, because then the server goes off and
- automounts all the home directories of everybody in the department.
- Eventually the automounts go away, but it seems to me to be a waste. Any
- ideas on how to avoid this while still retaining a central mail spool
- directory?
-
- Thanks,
- Bill Bogstad
-
- P.S. If it matters, I'm still running 4.1.1.
-