good deal :-) one other thing, you'll want a linux-capable file system on that hard drive -- at least ext2fs, and journaling capability would be nice too (ext3 or reiser).
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Peter Stokes wrote: > 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. > -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
