Re: Locking and concurrency -- system considerations

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Author: David Sheryn
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: Jon Morby, Philip Hazel, exim-users
Subject: Re: Locking and concurrency -- system considerations
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> 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??).


It certainly would be very handy to be able to run multiple copies of exim
with the same config in different spool locations just by setting a command
line switch.

DHS
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