Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If the filesystem isn't mounted, then qmail isn't going to be
> > delivering mail to it, is it?
>
> So if I umount /home while qmail is up, will qmail barf or simply wait for
> /home to be remounted?
You still don't get it. Running quotacheck is something you do after a major
system failure, etc. You do this from single user mode, before mounting other
filesystems, before starting networking at all, let alone network daemons.
On SysV-style systems, single user mode, where you do major system repairs and
whatnot, is runlevel 1. Networking isn't enabled until you hit runlevel 3.
And things like qmail-send shouldn't be started until at _least_ runlevel 2,
preferably runlevel 3.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with qmail. Take further questions about
quotacheck to the supportl list for your OS.
> I know single user mode would be best; I could do the quota stuff late at
> night. But what would happen if mail comes to the server and qmail isn't
> running?
It's deferred. The sender will try again later if they can't establish a
connection. If you don't like that, pay someone to be a backup MX for you.
Charles
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