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

--- Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, DUH. OK, it's NOT my mailspool (which did seem a bit strange, since I am
only building the software, not installing it yet), it's that I am doing the
build itself of the software over NFS. Thanks!

> 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.

We're pushing and pulling all our mail over NFS so we can keep our options
open in terms of how/where we put our data (might move to GFS in future), as
well as allowing ourselves to create more redundancy for SMTP/IMAP server,
etc.

Thanks a lot!


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