At 5:01 PM +0200 10/6/06, Anders Norrbring wrote: > I'm thinking that maybe I can mount the mailman executable directory > from the webserver as a NFS share, and then run "as usual".
The Mailman developers have done a lot of work to try to make Mailman as NFS-safe as possible. In theory, you should be able to put the entire /usr/local/mailman directory on NFS and share that from the web server to the mail server, and so long as you properly configure both ends that should "just work". Of course, any time you put content on NFS and you have two different servers accessing that content, you have a number of additional issues and you have to make sure that NFS is properly configured to support that method of use. In particular, you need to make sure that client-side attribute caching is turned off, among other things. You also need to keep in mind that being dependant on an NFS server for this kind of operation will introduce a number of new types of failure modes (like everything appears to completely lock up if the NFS server goes away), and that unless you're spending a lot of money for a pretty high-end NFS server this will reduce your throughput and the overall reliability of the system. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 Founding Individual Sponsor of LOPSA. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp