[Mimedefang] Performance parameters

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Sun Feb 29 23:05:10 EST 2004


On 04.2.28 6:49 AM, "Kevin A. McGrail" <kmcgrail at pccc.com> wrote:

> For a quick change on a server in place with plenty of ram with tmpfs
> compiled and configured to /dev/shm, does anyone see a problem with just
> adding the following (or very similar) to the mimedefang startup script?
> 
> cd /dev/shm
> mkdir MIMEDefang
> chmod 700 MIMEDefang
> chown defang.defang MIMEDefang
> ln -s /dev/shm/MIMEDefang /var/spool/MIMEDefang

I did this on one of my machines and haven't had any issues with it... (that
i can think of anyways)

on some newly installed machines, I actually created a tmpfs entry in my
fstab at /var/spool/MIMEDEfang which seemed a little cleaner in the case of
a system reboot.

alan



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