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If the qmail queue is on the same filesystem, I believe it should be ok
since qmail writes it's queue files as the name of the inode on the
filesystem. This should keep things unique, I think.
-jeremy
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> i've never tried it with coda, but i've used qmail+lvs successfully. if
> you use tcpserver, there's some flag to turn off ident lookups. use that,
> or you'll get major bad performance.
>
> you're going to share the queue and have both qmails running at the same
> time? hmm, that could get messy. i'm not sure if qmail handles that
> safely or not. it indeed might. if you're just going to use it for
> failover safety, that shouldn't be an issue, but both going at the same
> time with a shared queue dir? hum...
>
> -tcl.
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Madhav wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have set up a LVS cluster with heartbeat, mon and coda(2 routers+2 real
> > servers) for telnet,ftp and http services. I am planning to implement the
> > mail service also in this setup.
> >
> > Now I have installed qmail in one real server and it is working fine. I am
> > planning to install qmail under coda(usually qmail directory will be under
> > /var/qmail) so that I can have replication of mail data(with coda) and also
> > masking of the failed mail server(with mon). I would like to know whether
> > anyone tried this earlier and if not can anyone foresee any problems with
> > this setup(like both the mail servers trying at the same time to send mails
> > from the same mail queue)?.
> > Any suggestions or ideas will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Madhav
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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