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Yeah, didn't think of that, not sure how qmail's trigger handles that. I
really don't see how a central queue in this case would have any
advantages over two separate queue and those machines being balanced.
-jeremy
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> yeah, i wasn't really worried about the queueing as much as when qmail
> grabs messages out of the queue to send/deliver. if both try to do it at
> the same time, what happens? qmail's pretty smart, but i don't know what
> kind of locking mechanisms it has for stuff like that. that could get
> shaky. maybe i'm just not looking at it right.
>
> -tcl.
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
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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
> >
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > > 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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