multilog + NFS

2000-04-15 Thread Curtis Generous
Is it safe to use multilog to send log files to an NFS mounted disk? I want to centralize the logging of a large number of QMAIL machines (50+ hosts) to a central log server. So far it has been done using syslog sending info to a dedicated @loghost but we are seeing loss of data at high loads.

Re: multilog + NFS

2000-04-15 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:09:45AM -0400, Curtis Generous wrote: [snip] "Beware that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may discard files that were not safely written to disk before an outage" Besides this failure mode (which syslog also suffers from), and there

Re: multilog + NFS

2000-04-15 Thread Greg Owen
Peter van Dijk wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:09:45AM -0400, Curtis Generous wrote: "Beware that NFS, async filesystems, and softupdates filesystems may discard files that were not safely written to disk before an outage" Besides this failure mode (which syslog also suffers