basic question

2001-06-05 Thread marco1 




I've to configure qmail on a linux server(RedHat 
7.1) and I would like to use an existing

Fat partion as Linux partition. Is there any 
problem( security, or something else)?

Thank you 
all

Re: basic question

2001-06-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs 

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, marco1 wrote:

 Fat partion as Linux partition. Is there any problem( security, or
 something else)?

Performance and reliability. FAT is not an efficient filesystem,
especially if you expect to have lots of messages in the queue at any
given time.

And don't ever expect a FAT partition to be reliable. How many times have
you needed to run scandisk? Think about it.

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Re: basic question

2001-06-05 Thread Charles Cazabon 

marco1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've to configure qmail on a linux server(RedHat 7.1) and I would like to
 use an existing Fat partion as Linux partition. Is there any problem(
 security, or something else)?

Yes, lots of problems.  FAT (MS-DOS) filesystems don't support file ownership,
group ownership, or permissions attributes.  It's therefore impossible to
maintain proper security on such a partition/filesystem.  Even if they did,
they also might not support BSD FFS sync semantics and might therefore be
inappropriate for use as a queue disk.

Just re-partition, re-install, or create a new ext2 partition.  You'll save
yourself a lot of headaches.

Charles
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basic question

1999-07-19 Thread Quinn Coldiron 

I've read the "tips" section at qmail.org, but I don't quit understand how to
fix this problem.

I can't send mail to anybody unless I have that person's domain listed in the
rcpthosts file.  How can this be fixed?

Quinn



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Re: basic question

1999-07-19 Thread Anand Buddhdev 

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:09:07PM -0400, Quinn Coldiron wrote:

FAQ 5.4

 I've read the "tips" section at qmail.org, but I don't quit understand how to
 fix this problem.
 
 I can't send mail to anybody unless I have that person's domain listed in the
 rcpthosts file.  How can this be fixed?

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