On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:11:24PM +0200, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > Mailbox files, on the other hand, are usually overwritten, and they > > are updated in place. This almost works reliably, especially if > > you use dotlock files and turn off NFS attribute caching. > > > And I was talking about OP's case of sharing configuration files. I do a lot > more with nfs, where multiple machines can write to the same file. As long as > I do it in sequence, the other ones will see the changes. Two people editing > the same file falls into shooting yourself in the foot category and is not > specific to NFS or even two different machines.
It is IMHO much more sensible to push config files from a central machine where the configs are kept under revision control in CVS, SVN, ... than to share configs (and indexed tables) via NFS. -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.