On Die, 08 Aug 2000, Barry Smoke wrote:
> sure enough...after 2 hours...the next user I put in started working.....and he got
>appended to /var/qmail/users/assign
> I've never seen this problem before......what can I do to make this instantaneous?
> What is updating that file?
>
> Someone Please help .......
You said the delivery starts working only after the user appears in
the users/assign file. Look at your cron-jobs after a line
containing qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. These two commands update the
users/assign and users/cdb files.
The qmail-users database is only needed when the home-directories
are mounted via NFS or the passwords are managed by NIS or similar.
During a NFS or NIS outage the messages would bounce if the users
were not known locally. This way the message is deferred until NFS
is up again.
You might want to look at 4.9 in the FAQ.
hih,
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