On 24 Jun 2013, at 15:39, andreas graeper <agraeper@???> wrote:
> i have a 2-node tiny-cluster. one active, one passive node.
> i need /var/mail/root available all time on both nodes but all the other
> files should live on mirror
>
> ln -s /mirror/var/mail /var/mail
> worked so far.
>
> but
> ln -s /mirror/var/mail/xxx /var/mail/xxx
> for every user xxx except root, does not, cause exim claims /var/mail/xxx
> to be a regular file.
http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_appendfile_transport.html
Read the section starting "Operational details for appending". It explains why this is the case, and how to get round it.
Graeme
