On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:38:09PM +0100, Adam Nealis wrote: > --- Eric Scopinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > > But when I mount my /var on my NFS Server the qmail doesn't start. > > My qmail directory is on /var/qmail > > > > Have I missing anithing? : > Why are you mounting the entire /var partition over FreeBSD, > since this is a rather important system partition? I would > recommend that /var be local. Mounting /var/qmail only over > NFS is a bit more acceptable, but still rather odd and _not_ > recommended.
/var/qmail (at least in its entirety) cannot be mounted over NFS. qmail's documentation says: # The queue directory must be local. Mounting it over NFS is extremely # dangerous---not that this stops people from running sendmail that way! # Diskless hosts should use mini-qmail instead. /var/qmail/control/me contains the host's fully-qualified domain name and is unshareable. Note also that some other directories in /var, such as /var/run and /var/lock, are also machine-specific and cannot be shared over NFS. See also <http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/install.html#whyvar>. -- Daniel Biddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
