Hi Jack & Lynn Thanks for the advice, will try it out especially the hard disk bit.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of guitarlynn Sent: 03 March 2002 06:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Any packages for mail forwarding available on LRP? 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 http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
