On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:11:30PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote:
> I would suggest getting a list of the users and thier
> clear text passwords. Then write a script to load it
> up into the vpopmail mysql table. Leave the pw_dir field
> empty. vpopmail will auto create the user dir and auto
> update the mysql table. These features were built so
> mysql admins could load up the database and vpopmail
> would handle the user files.
Luckily I did have a list of the clear text passwords, I build a script
that was basically:
echo "Adding username"; vadduser -q XXXXXXX username
for each user and then ran it as a long batch job. It took a few hours,
but it worked.
>
> You can build a clustered solution if you plan on growing
> above 130,000 acounts or if you want to load balence.
> In that case read up on mysql replication then turn
> on the mysql replication feature in 5.0
> --enable-mysql-replication=y
>
> You can use djbdns tinydns server to radomize load across
> a set of clustered machines.
>
I need to see exactly how many of the accounts are active. Due to the
fact that we were outsourcing beforehand, I couldn't tell exactly which
accounts were active and which were not. I'll start deleting inactive
accounts after the first 3 months, so I initially expect the numbers to
go down rather than up. If and when they do go up I'll be back for
more as clustering is way over my head.
Thanks.
g
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