[Mimedefang] Puttting MIMEDefang spool on tmpfs

Lisa Casey lisa at jellico.com
Mon Jan 23 13:26:08 EST 2006


Hi,

I can't seem to get this to work right. I imagine it's partly the fault of 
my lack of knowlege. I'm trying to get MIMEDefang's spool directory onto a 
RAMdisk or into tmpfs.

my /etc/fstab looks like this:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3 
ro,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async 1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 
0

I added this line to the bottom of it:

none                    /var/spool/MIMEDefang   tmpfs 
uid=3354,gid=3354,mode=700      0 0

but when I reboot the box I get these errors:

Jan 23 13:11:56 Raydeus-Dee rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on 
ide0(3,5), internal journal
Jan 23 13:11:57 Raydeus-Dee mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on none,
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode.
Jan 23 13:11:57 Raydeus-Dee mount:        or too many mounted file systems
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee autofs: automount startup succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 
seconds
Jan 23 13:11:57 Raydeus-Dee rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems:  failed
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on 
ide0(3,2), internal journal
Jan 23 13:11:57 Raydeus-Dee rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas: 
succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode.
Jan 23 13:11:58 Raydeus-Dee rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space:  succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:16 Raydeus-Dee kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 
seconds
Jan 23 13:12:00 Raydeus-Dee init: Entering runlevel: 3
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on 
ide0(3,7), internal journal
Jan 23 13:12:01 Raydeus-Dee kudzu: Updating /etc/fstab succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode.
Jan 23 13:12:09 Raydeus-Dee kudzu:  succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: tmpfs invalid option
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee identd: identd startup succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:09 Raydeus-Dee iptables: Flushing all current rules and user 
defined chains: succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based 
on auto-negotiated partner ability
45e1.
Jan 23 13:12:09 Raydeus-Dee iptables: Clearing all current rules and user 
defined chains: succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: task `ip' exit_signal 17 in 
reparent_to_init
Jan 23 13:12:10 Raydeus-Dee iptables: Flushing all current rules and user 
defined chains: succeeded
Jan 23 13:12:17 Raydeus-Dee kernel: tmpfs invalid option

If someone doesn't mind I need a little more help to get this working.

Thanks,

Lisa Casey




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