On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 04:05:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to figure out the best soulution for remote relaying. I have
> already looked at the packages on the qmail web site.
>
> A few questions:
>
> Can a cdb file be rebuilt multiple times per minute without any problems?
Sure. Just do some measurements of the load that causes. Should be minimal.
> What about if the cdb file is on a nfs filesystem?
I think it's atomic, not completely sure though.
> My original thought for handling this would be to simple have my
> checkpassword 'touch' a file (with remote ip addr as name), and then
> either modify tcpserver to check if the file exists to allow access, or
> build a cdb from all the files in the directory. Anyone have any
> thoughts?
Well I've been thinking about that too and my ideas were -exactly- the same. Using a
cdb will be faster, but you should see for yourself if that weighs up to the loss of
creating a cdb file everytime.
[yes, I -know- I'm sounding very vague :)]
Greetz, Peter.
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.| Peter van Dijk | <mo|VERWEG> stoned worden of coden
.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | <mo|VERWEG> dat is de levensvraag
| <mo|VERWEG> coden of stoned worden
| <mo|VERWEG> stonend worden En coden
| <mo|VERWEG> hmm
| <mo|VERWEG> dan maar stoned worden en slashdot lezen:)
