Thanks a lot John... you're work in qmail is excellent truthly... congratulations mate truthly...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> If I had a server hardware failure... and my hardware breaks... so I >> need >> to set up a new one qmail server... what should I have backed up in my >> actual qmail server and how could I recover all data? > > see http://qmail.jms1.net/backup.shtml ... explained in full. > >> I suppose I should overwrite >> /home/vpopmail and /var/qmail fully with my backed up version? > > no. the web page explains exactly what needs to be backed up and > restored. the backup scripts i run on my own server and my clients' > servers use this list, and i've actually done several recoveries (from > dead hard drives and dead servers) where nothing was lost except new > mail which arrived after the most recent backup. > >> but this >> couldn't cause later problems with courier-imap compiled binaries? >> because >> they're compiled with just have installed vpopmail libraries and not >> with >> backed ones? > > when courier-imap (or more specifically, courier-authlib) is compiled, > it is STATICALLY linked with libvpopmail.a. this means that the > "libvpopmail.a" file needs to be in place while courier-authlib is being > compiled, but it doesn't need to be there (or it doesn't need to be the > exact same version) when it's running. > > one of the design goals of vpopmail 6 is to have a dynamic library. when > this happens, and if courier-authlib is changed so it uses the dynamic > library, the libvpopmail.so file will need to be in place for > courier-authlib's "authdaemond" process to run. > > however, minor updates to the libvpopmail.so file (re-compiles, minor > upgrades to fix bugs, etc... things which don't change the API) will > still allow authdaemond (and other programs which dynamically link > against the library) to work correctly. the whole point of dynamic > libraries is that the functions in the library are found by name at > run-time, rather than having an explicit address or "function number" be > hard-coded into the executable. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | John M. Simpson --- KG4ZOW --- Programmer At Large | > | http://www.jms1.net/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173 | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > !DSPAM:4734293b32001891920651!
