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- From: helthuis@cs.utwente.nl (Bert Helthuis)
- Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.115450@cs.utwente.nl>
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:54:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- |> 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?
- |>
-
- I too would be interested in such ideas. We have a similar setup but
- want the .forward processing __on the user's machine__, not on the
- mail server because of expected load problems. Some of us here
- have scripts to inspect their /usr/spool/mail/ file but this appears
- to produce a lot of traffic when this is done on all our machines.
-
- Do you have an elegant solution ?
-
- Bert
-