Rocco Scappatura:
> > > > > I have different SMTP gateways each one configurred exactly at
> > the
> > > > same
> > > > > manner. The only difference is the hostname.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to know if I could define "/etc/postfix" as an NFS
> > > share
> > > > > somewhere and export it on each of my SMTP gateways. The aim is
> > > > > obviously to change only one configuration file each time that a
> > > > postfix
> > > > > configuration update is needed.
> > > >
> > > > Let the computer do the work for you. See: man 1 make. If you are
> > > > not familiar with this tool, then you work too hard.
> > >
> > > I know that make is a really powerfull tool. I have used it (in the
> > > sense that I have write down some Makefile) for compiling rather few
> > C
> > > projects. At the moment I can't guess how I could use 'make' for my
> > > purpouse. I feel that in some manner it could be a substitution
> > matter
> > > that 'make' is very clever to manage. But I can't infere anything
> > more..
> > >
> > > Could you give me further insight? :-)
> > >
> >
> > # cat Makefile
> > FILES: main.cf-a main.cf-b main.cf-c
> >
> > all: $(FILES)
> >
> > main.cf-a: Makefile main.cf-template
> > sed 's/whatever/whatever/' main.cf-template >$@
> > rsync -av $@ hosta:/etc/postfix
> >
> > main.cf-b: Makefile main.cf-template
> > sed 's/whatever/whatever/' main.cf-template >$@
> > rsync -av $@ hostb:/etc/postfix
> >
> > main.cf-c: Makefile main.cf-template
> > sed 's/whatever/whatever/' main.cf-template >$@
> > rsync -av $@ hostc:/etc/postfix
>
> Thanks Wietse,
>
> you are asserting implicitily that is better to avoid the use of an NFS
> filesystem mounted on /etc/postfix of each SMTP gateway?
No. You can change the pathnames in my example, and use
/some/where/hosta/etc/postfix instead of hosta:/etc/postfix. There
are lots of ways to set up NFS shares and I won't speculate on how
you did it.
You still need something to tell the remote host that the file has
changed.
Wietse
