[NTLUG:Discuss] user replication between 2 linux servers

[Tom McDonald]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 04:19:46 -0600
Aaron Goldblatt <aaron at goldblatt.net> wrote:

> > servers on the net as redundant mail servers (SMTP and POP3), is there
an
> > automated way to replicate user changes between the 2 machines?  I
could
> > probably write a set of scripts to accomplish this, but I thought I'd
ask
> 
> If you want redundancy of mail stores, I'm not the right guy to look to,

> but if you want just redundancy of access points, you could do your two 
> SMTP servers, rsync the passwd and group files (as previously
discussed), 
> and put the mail spools on an nfs server somewhere.  That's not totally 
> unlike what I do.
> 
> The downside is that if the nfs share goes down you lose your access to 
> mail.  The upside is that, if you rsync replicate the mail spools, to
keep 
> them up to date you'd have to do it after each delivery, and after each 
> time someone checks mail.  A periodic update would produce lost and 
> duplicate mail in the event of a failure.
> 
> ag
> 
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An alternate solution might be to use LDAP see
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/08/ldap.html for details

-- 
Tom McDonald    <tom at compuclaim.com>

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.