[courier-users] Re: make check fails - using nfs

email builder wrote:

>Martijn & others,
>
> I am seeing this make check failure when my mail spool is on nfs. Not sure
>what to do with this or if this test is even that important. FC3, no options
>except enabled unicode.
>
>INFO: LOGIN, user=confmdtest, ip=[127.0.0.1], protocol=SMAP1
>INFO: LOGOUT, user=confmdtest, ip=[127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, time=2
>INFO: LOGIN, user=confmdtest, ip=[127.0.0.1], protocol=SMAP1
>INFO: LOGOUT, user=confmdtest, ip=[127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, time=5
>make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/home/admin/courier-imap/courier-imap-4.0.3.20050618/imap'
>make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory
>`/home/admin/courier-imap/courier-imap-4.0.3.20050618/imap'
>make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
>
>

I don't remember if this was the exact same error, but it sounds pretty
similar.

> Martijn mentioned he had this problem but didn't mention what he did except
>"repeat on local filesystem".... how do I do that? I *want* my mailspool on
>nfs, but I can test it locally, but don't know where to tell make check to
>look somewhere else...?
>
>

It's only the check that is failing. Courier will work fine over NFS.
Just repeat the make on a local filesystem. The make does NOT use your
real mailspool, IIRC it just creates a subdirectory in your current
directory.

Know what you do when you run a mailspool over nfs (all usual caveats of
nfs apply, f.i. what happens really when your nfs server goes down?),
but it is perfectly allright. I deliver mail to a mailspool over NFS,
and read it locally. That is just coincidence, I had it set up the other
way around before that, but changed it as the current setup has better
performance for me (the machine where the mailspool now resides is
twenty times faster than the other). Now if I could create a mailspool
on a NetApp.... Actually I know an ISP that does and I hear they use
courier as well.

HTH,
M4



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