Thanks Tom, you save my life! :D

Tom Collins escreveu:
> On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Jean Carlos Oliveira Guandalini wrote:
>> I need run chkuser in my secondary MX server.
>>
>> I followed the following steps:
>
> <snip>
>
>> but it does not function.
>
> On the backup MX, the domain should be in rcpthosts (or morercpthosts
> which builds morercpthosts.cdb) and users/assign (which builds to
> users/cdb).  It should NOT be in virtualdomains and it does not need
> to be in smtproutes if your primary server has a lower MX record than
> the backup server.
>
> If you're using the CDB-backend, you'll probably want to copy the
> whole ~vpopmail/domains over, excluding Maildir directories, so
> chkuser will work.  And you'll probably want to rsync it every so
> often so new users and aliases go across.  I rsync the whole
> ~vpopmail/domains directory each night so I have an off-site backup of
> email as well.
>
> Here's what I rsync every 5 minutes, script runs on primary mx, and
> I've added the primary mx's ssh key to mx2's authorized_keys file:
>
> rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=Maildir --delete --exclude=lastauth \
>   /home/vpopmail/domains/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/vpopmail/domains/
> rsync -azl --numeric-ids /var/qmail/users
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/qmail/
> rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=*.lock \
>   /var/qmail/control/*hosts* /var/qmail/control/smtproutes \
>   /var/qmail/control/badmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/qmail/control/
>
> I guess if I was backing up Maildirs as well, throughout the day, I
> could failover to that server should the primary die a horrible
> death.  I'd have to copy the virtualdomains file, stop the rsync, and
> update DNS so the backup had the lowest MX record.
>
> -- 
> Tom Collins  -  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/
> QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
>
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