There is, of course, a way of avoiding all of this pain.
In the config file use
spool_directory = /var/spool/exim/${primary_hostname}
or something similar, make sure the logs are in a similar location, and
run each machine in its own spool directory.
If a machine dies, then you start another exim queue runner with a
fractionally modified config file (maybe the possibility of setting these
variables on the command line should be looked at??).
Then you don't *really* have shared directories, your locking problems
disappear in a puff of logic, and you have a decent solid spool area.
You are still canned if your NFS server dies, but then so are we (for
different reasons).
Nigel.
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