[Mimedefang] Performance parameters

Steffen Kaiser skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Mon Mar 1 02:18:15 EST 2004


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kevin A. McGrail 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

How to handle the case, if /var/spool/MIMEDefang already exists?
Be it an old symlink or an old-style directory.

BTW: Why don't you use mount?

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser



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