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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:35:13 +0100
From:      usleepless@gmail.com
To:        David Patton <david@farmington.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issues with email migration
Message-ID:  <c39ec84c0910300635n505644f9ye573562ef7b187c5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091030130054.589B39860E4@mail.farmington.k12.mo.us>
References:  <20091030130054.589B39860E4@mail.farmington.k12.mo.us>

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Hi David,

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Patton <david@farmington.k12.mo.us>wrote:

> This morning I moved the contents from the server over to an NFS share.
>
>
>
> This is a freebsd 6.2 server running postfix, courier-imap and
> squirrelmail.
> I used rsync to move the data for /www and /mail over to the nfs share.
> After I made the changed to fstab and rebooted, every thing came up and
> email seemed to be faster but in fact it wasn't. Once I realized that there
> was an issue, I changed the link back for the /www directory to the
> original
> location and left the link for /mail pointing to the nfs share. I found
> from
> a search to try newaliaies and the restart postfix but that didn't work.
>
>
>
> Maillog:
>
> Oct 30 06:11:38 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1337]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:11:39 bonnie postfix/master[889]: warning: process
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1337 exit status 1
>
> Oct 30 06:11:39 bonnie postfix/master[889]: warning:
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup - throttling
>
>
>
> Message:
>
> Oct 30 06:00:27 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1177]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:01:28 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1184]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:02:29 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1192]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:03:30 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1218]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:04:31 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1235]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:05:32 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1256]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:06:33 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1270]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:07:34 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1296]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>
> Oct 30 06:08:35 bonnie postfix/smtpd[1307]: fatal: shared-lock database
> /www/mailman/data/aliases.db for open: Operation not supported
>

although i am certainly not an expert regarding email issues nor NFS, but
could it be that the NFS server needs to support "lockd" and "statd" ?

i have this in my /etc/rc.conf:

rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
rpc_statd_enable="YES"

kind regards,

usleep



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