Re: [Mimedefang] HOME=/var/spool/MIMEDefang

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Yizhar Hurwitz wrote: My bayes and awl databased are stored at: /home/defang/.spamassassin In /etc/mail/sa-mimedefang.cf I have: auto_whitelist_path /home/defang/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist bayes_path /home/defang/.spamassassin/bayes BTW - On most of the servers, /var/spool/MIMEDefang is a ra

[Mimedefang] flock vs. fcntl

2006-11-15 Thread Jason Bertoch [Electronet]
Reading the Optimizing Do's and Don'ts found at http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?OptimizingMIMEDefang, there is one line bugging me: lock_method flock. I googled for info on these two locking methods and am hard up to find any recent information on which to use on my RedHat and Fedora sy

Re: [Mimedefang] flock vs. fcntl

2006-11-15 Thread David F. Skoll
Jason Bertoch [Electronet] wrote: > I googled for info on these two locking methods and am hard up to > find any recent information on which to use on my RedHat and Fedora > systems. It appears that fnctl works better for NFS but is there a > performance difference for local file systems? Does t

Re: [Mimedefang] flock vs. fcntl

2006-11-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Jason Bertoch [Electronet] wrote: Reading the Optimizing Do's and Don'ts found at http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?OptimizingMIMEDefang, there is one line bugging me: lock_method flock. I googled for info on these two locking methods and am hard up to find any recent information on whic

[Mimedefang] upgrading 2.51 to 2.57

2006-11-15 Thread NFN Smith
I'm in the process of upgrading several servers from MD 2.51 to 2.57. The servers are Debian Sarge, running sendmail 8.13.8, and the 2.57 installation was done by Debian package, taken from the Testing branch. As far as I'm aware all the MD config settings on each server are identical, and we

Re: [Mimedefang] upgrading 2.51 to 2.57

2006-11-15 Thread David F. Skoll
NFN Smith wrote: > On this particular box, when MD starts, it allocates slaves to inbound > messages, but when 10 slaves are allocated, then I start getting error > messages that look like: > >mfconnect: No free slaves: Need 1, found 0 Is that server busier than the rest? Does it have a ram

Re: [Mimedefang] flock vs. fcntl

2006-11-15 Thread Kelson Vibber
Kris Deugau wrote: It's most likely intended for people running SpamAssassin; relating to how it locks BerkeleyDB databases (Bayes and AWL). flock() is faster, but isn't generally NFS-safe; fcntl() is (more) NFS-safe but slower. It is, in fact, a SpamAssassin configuration directive that sho

[Mimedefang] Re: upgrading 2.51 to 2.57

2006-11-15 Thread NFN Smith
David F. Skoll wrote: Is that server busier than the rest? Does it have a ramdisk for /var/spool/MIMEDefang? It is our busiest server, and it doesn't have a ramdisk, but none of our servers are especially heavily loaded, and all of them run 4GB of RAM. With that much memory, it's probably