Thanks to the advice I got here I finally got RHL 9 installed on my Cyrix processor box.
I'm a kind of adolescent Linux admin, trying to learn on my own. I'm trying to move my fetchmail/spamasassin processing from my workstation (frodo) to the Cyrix box which I dubbed clavin. brick I've set up NFS, NIS, and autofs so that I can log on to clavin with accounts on the frodo. I've run into a conceptual wall trying to make the mail spools work. I'm keeping the mail spools on the workstation for now and trying to get at them as a client on clavin I first tied to automount by trying to duplicate the mounting of home directories by adding: * /var/spool/mail /etc/auto.mail to my /etc/auto.home /etc/auto.mail has * -rw,soft,intr frodo:/var/spool/mail/& I restarted autofs, but when I tried to ls /var/spool/mail/rick when logged in as either rick or root it couldn't find the directory. I'd also tried mounting /var/mail the same way (it's a link to /var/spool/mail) neither way worked. So then I gave up on automounting and took the /var/spool/mail line out of /etc/auto.home and put an nfs mount for frodo:/var/spool/mail into my /etc/fstab frodo:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs bg,intr,soft,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 0 0 (one line of course) The first time I did this I goofed up and left out the nfs. Clavin complained that the wsize and rsize options weren't supported, but proceeded to mount the directory anyway. I then went back to frodo, and when I checked my e-mail in evolution, I found that I'd lost my old mail spools, and only had new e-mails. I've since put the nfs field in and I THINK that things are working. I've done a lot of looking and while I've found lots of books, and googles pages which say that sharing mail spools is a common thing to do with nfs (and implications that autofs should work) I can't find any kind of how-to which actually goes through the steps. So can anyone here point me to one? I'd also like advice on how to actually do the migration of the fetchmail/spamd processing to clavin. I'm trying to offload the spamd processing since frodo sometimes gets unresponsive to me, and when I've telneted in from a windoze machine and done a top, I find that spamd is sometimes soaking up a lot of cycles. Right now, I'm running (all on frodo): fetchmail to get mail from my isp - this is running as a crontab task from root's cronfile, the procmailrc is set up to run the mail through spamassassin via spamd. I'm also running sendmail on frodo, this is processing locally sent mail, and also serving incoming mail for this domail (denhaven2.homeip.net). I set up this backchannel for e-mail since my isp is overly aggressive in using dnsbls and blocking. What I'm thinking about as a migration path is: 1) install spamassassin on clavin 2) remove fetchmail from the crontab on frodo 3) stop sendmail on frodo 4) stop spamd on frodo 5) somehow train the new spamassassin on clavin what spamassassin on frodo had learned in its bayes database. I'm not sure how to do this. 6) start spamd on clavin 7) set up fetchmail on clavin and put it into the crontab there. 8) edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc on frodo to point to clavin as the host for spamd 9) start sendmail on frodo This will leave sendmail running on frodo and using the spamd on clavin. Is this a workable plan? Does anyone know how to transer the "educated" spam-assassin from one machine to another? Do I need to worry about locking if fetchmail and sendmail both cause spamc to access spamd concurrently? -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
