On Sunday 03 March 2002 00:27, Jack Coates wrote:
> If it's going to act as an MTA, I'm pretty sure it's an RFC violation
> (in spirit if not in letter) to use a volatile RAM disk instead of a
> hard drive.
>
> Granted forwarding usually goes fast on a low traffic server, but
> spooling can happen for a number of reasons. If your machine B
> accepts mail from A to C because C is offline, it is now the only
> machine responsible for making sure that message gets to C. A power
> failure now causes mail loss.
>
> So I'd put a little hard disk in there and add the hdsupp.lrp, then
> mount that disk as your mail spool.
Doh! I didn't put that in there did I ?!?
Thanks Jack!
This would also apply to apache or any server
with "dynamic" content of any type that you might
want to keep in case of "evil happenings".
One step further, go ahead and chroot {} it too and
keep it safe(r) from the outside.
--
~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn
guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
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