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Distributing map files
\ Martin Schmitt (31 May 2007)
. \ Bastian Blank (31 May 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (31 May 2007)
. . \ Martin Schmitt (31 May 2007)

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Subject:	Distributing map files
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Martin Schmitt
Date:	31 May 2007

Hi all!

I have a system in place, where raw map files are copied over to a
number of target machines, and then postmap is executed remotely via
SSH. While this has never failed, I have my issues with this method and
don't feel in control all the time. For a start, I would prefer to not
have to execute commands on a herd of remote machines and not have to be
prepared for every error that might occur.

Wouldn't it be more reliable to prepare the map files on the central
management server, postmap them locally and copy them over via rsync and
leave handling of remote I/O errors to rsync?

Is there anything wrong with the rsync approach and distributon of
ready-made map files? What do you think?

-martin

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