[Devil-linux-develop] Suggestions (not mine :)

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

A couple suggestions sent to me privately.  Thoughts?

 - BS


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somebody other might also have the same scenario and would like to mount
a share through a firewall. so a good thing would be mount.davfs
(http://dav.sourceforge.net/) as you can use it to mount a share on a
DAV-enabled Webserver and usually port 80 or 443 is open on a firewall.
there is also an interesting kernel patch (http://shfs.sourceforge.net/)
with which you can mount a filesystem over ssh.

when setting up dovecot in the release 1.0.5a I noticed the following:
dovecot always checks for new mail in /var/spool/mail while postfix
saves mails in the jail in /var/spool/postfix/var/mail. It was of no use
to change the environment variable for MAIL to
/var/spool/postfix/var/mail, dovecot didn't bother. As it would be to
risky to lose the mailboxes after a reboot, I wanted to save the mbox
persistently. So I have extended the /etc/init.d/postfix so that when
giving it the start argument it mounts a share to
/var/spool/postfix/var/mail, then I have to chmod (otherwise dovecot has
not sufficient privs) this directory and last I symlink /var/spool/mail
to /var/spool/postfix/var/mail. As I have the user-homes set to /mnt
where I also mounted a drive I have a perfect mailsystem without any
data loss. As soon as I can mount samba-shares instead of /dev/hda1 and
/dev/hda2 my proxy server can die and I can just take another cheapo
computer and start devil-linux. I love it. same thing I did with the
squid cache and logs, so the cache hasn't to be rebuilt after a reboot.