[Mimedefang] Creating & using a ram disk for Mimedefang's spool files

[John]

Lisa,

Here is my line in fstab on a RH 7.3 box.

none                        /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults 
                             0 0
/dev/shm                     /var/spool/MIMEDefang   tmpfs 
mode=0700,size=2000M,uid=defang,gid=defang  0 0

Watch the size and adjust accordingly.  I have 4Gig RAM in this box

Is your /dev/shm mounted?  Gots to be done first.

Also, do you have a /dev/shm ?  Been so long since I have set this up I 
cannot remember if I had to create one or not <G>

At 12:18 PM 1/20/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Sorry to bother you guys with this but I'm really not sure just how to go 
>about doing this.
>
>I'm using Redhat 7.2 and Mimedefang 2.48. I want to move 
>/var/spool/MIMEDefang onto a RAMdisk.
>
>I've looked at http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=27   I tried the 
>command suggested for unix (mount -t tmpfs -o 
>size=200m,mode=0700,uid=defang,gid=defang /dev/shm /var/spool/MIMEDefang) 
>but got this error message:
>
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/shm,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>
>Should I create a RAMdisk  the way it is suggested in 
>http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html  ??
>
>If so, then how do I move (mount?) /var/spool/MIMEDefang to the RAMdisk?
>
>I suppose this is probably simple enough to do but I've managed to make 
>myself nervous about trying it. Can someone here help me get this done? 
>I'ld sure appreciate it.
>
>Lisa Casey
>
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John
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