On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 07:10 AM, David Phillips wrote:
> Paul Fries writes: >> Yeah I have been really pulling my hair out over that one. =) With as >> many Pop-3 connections/sec that our servers handle I thought that I >> would make things a little smoother if Vpopmail didn't write the cdb. >> I am afraid that the hash would become corrupt and cause relay >> problems for my users. > > Assuming that vpopmail has proper locking for the tcprules(1) source > file > and uses unique temporary files everytime it runs tcprules, then this > isn't > a problem. tcprules atomically updates the cdb file. In theory, you are correct David. In practice, that file gets truncated regularly on a high volume mail server. Discovering that, and subsequent problems because of it caused me to write the mysql patch in the first place. Matt
