you might consider using rsync to sync your conffiles, instead of
sharing them over nfs. this would eliminate alot of problems
and latency i'd think.
On 06/24/00 @ 12:11AM, Mike Denka wrote:
> I've got two qmail servers running inside a load balancer. They both access
> the same /var/mail/username/Maildir directories on an NFS server. They also
> share many of the same configuration files in /var/qmail/control on the NFS
> server. The files they share are local symbolic links to the shared volume
> on the NFS server. A few hours after bringing up the second qmail server,
> the first one, which had been running fine for two weeks, quit working. The
> errors I am getting in the syslog file on the failing server are
> "Can't_connect_to_SMTP_server" and "Can't_chdir_to_Maidir". Anyone have any
> success with this configuration or have any idea what could be causing the
> first server to loose its way?
>
> Running qmail and NFS on Solaris 2.7 (first server and NFS server) and 2.8
> (second qmail server). The first server (the one failing) responds to
> connections on port 25 but can't send or deliver and is not spawning any
> qmail processes. The second server is now doing all the work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
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