On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Wayne Stout wrote:
> Greetings everyone.
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> My company just installed a RH6.2 box to be a fax server and a file
> server. Our main application that all of the users work in is on an NCR
> Unix server. (For now, it will soon be moving to a Solaris box). It's
> character based, so everyone uses terminal emulation to do their work.
>
> I need to be able to have the mails that the fax server sends show up in
> the user's mailbox on the NCR system. ** Note: The Unix mail system is
> seperate from the internet mail server (unfortunately NT Sendmail based,
> although a co-worker and I are trying to get the change made to Linux).
>
> The current fax server is also on NCR Unix, and they have linked the
> mail folders so that it works between the 2 machines. I just haven't
> been able to figure out how to link the Linux box with the main Unix
> server.
>
> We run NIS and NFS, and I've got that working (finally!). I've tried
> using the same procedure that was used on the 2 Unix boxes, but nothing
> happened. Basically, it involved mounting the /var/mail dir on the main
> server to a folder on the secondary, then creating a symlink to
> /var/mail on the secondary.
>
> Does anyone know of an FAQ or HOWTO? I'd gladlt rtfm if I knew where tfm
> was.:)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne.
>
>
Why not configure sendmail on the fax server so that it sends local mail
to the NCR system? (Set the DH entry to point to the NCR
machine...) Having mail delivered to a NFS mounted file isn't the safest
thing in the world. There can be file locking problems.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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