Re: [exim] Autoreply database on NFS

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Anthony de Boer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Autoreply database on NFS
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Anthony de Boer wrote:

> Unfortunately, that code is heavily embedded there and not available to
> the once-database in autoreply.c.


You know, I never thought about it in connection with the once database.
...and looking at the code in autoreply, there doesn't seem to be any
locking at all. :-(

We've been running Exim on a 3-host cluster with home directories on NFS
for many years, and I don't think there's ever been a problem with the
once databases. At least if there has, nobody has told me. However, I
suppose if there was a problem, it is probable that nobody noticed! Does
the loss of an update to the once database really matter?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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