Thank you, I will check the SQL option. Meanwhile, i tried the nolocking configuration setup to avoid hangups (only one of the vpopmail boxes will add/edit users cdb data so there is no risk of concurrence errors to write to cdb files).
However, after recompiling (v 5.2.1), I get a weird behaviour: vadduser and vpasswd are now working ok, but vsetuserquota silently stop without actually updating account parameter. Vuserinfo returns the same/previous setup for that mail account. To see what's happening, I run vsetuserquota with strace, then I see it's silently stopping when trying to do an open() call for "~vpopmail/users/mytestingaccount/vpasswd" that of course it does not exist. Why is trying to use users/<user>/vpasswd instead of users/vpasswd? And without giving out any error message? In fact it's only failing for users at default domain. It's working ok with virtual domains. Regards Ken Jones wrote: > I agree with Andrea. > > Also, there is a configure option to not use locking. > ./configure --help | grep lock to get the exact line. > > Ken Jones > > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:32 am, Andrea Cerrito wrote: > >>I think that for a NFS solution the SQL backend is a must-have. >>Regards, >> >>Andrea Cerrito >>IT Manager >> >>+39. 0744. 5441. 1 >>+39. 348. 4912. 581 >> >>www.centromultimediale.tv >>www.centromultimediale.it >>www.etad.it >> >>== /history >>Due giovani e uno meno giovane si trovano proiettati a causa di una >>serie di fatalita' in un mondo parallelo dove non esistono le leggi >>del business ma solo follia e dolore. >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Steve Fulton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:44 PM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail locking problem on NFS filesystem >>> >>> >>>At 10:42 09/10/2002 +0200, you wrote >>> >>>Which directories did you mount as NFS? Are you using CDB files >>>or an SQL >>>backend for authentication? >>> >>>-- Steve >>> >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>I'm trying to share maildir directories with NFS from a backend >>>>file server to distribute load on a couple frontend pop/smtp >>>>boxes. >>> >>>In my first >>> >>> >>>>tests, everything works ok at the moment with vpopmail, >>>>qmail-pop3d and courier-imapd managing remotely exported >>>>mailboxes, but I get a nfs-related locking error when trying to >>>>add/edit user accounts, >>> >>>changinng >>> >>> >>>>passwords, quotas, etc. >>>> >>>>vpopmail tools complaint with non-NFS related error messages, but >>>>when running them thru strace, I find a timeout while trying to >>>>lock >>> >>>vusers cdb >>> >>> >>>>files. NFS client boxes are linux, server is a netapp.com filer, >>> >>>nfs mount >>> >>> >>>>options are the defaults (got error when trying to switch to >>>>tcp-based nfs), and lockd service is enabled. >>>> >>>>I know this is not directly related to vpopmail, but what nfs >>> >>>settings are >>> >>> >>>>appropiate for this purpose? >>>> >>>>Thnx
