[Fwd: Re: mailscanner-mrtg valid mountpoints]

[Kevin Miller]

No, that's about as clear as you can get I think.  When I first installed
it, I saw that, understood what it meant, didn't know the reason for it,
vacillated, hemmed and hawed, ran it a dozen times w/o setting it, then
finally broke down and tried what I thought it meant and lo and behold, it
worked.  The hang up is that people want to montor a directory so even if
the instructions are clear, our minds automatically go into the "That can't
possibly mean what it seems to mean so I'm going to do it my way because I
know my system better than the author, and he probably just phrased it
badly" mode.

One of those classic "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" situations I
guess...

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Spicer [mailto:kevin at KEVINSPICER.CO.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:39 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: [Fwd: Re: mailscanner-mrtg valid mountpoints]
>
>
>On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:33, Jim Robinson wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who answered (so quickly) - indeed the
>answer was to set
>> these options to the mount point which in my case(s) was /var
>This has to be the most asked question about MSMRTG.  In order to try
>and make the message clear (it obviously wasn't as clear as I
>thought it
>was) I am going to change the message in future releases to...
>Unable to find a mountpoint for $spooldir.  Please set Spool Directory
>in mailscanner-mrtg.conf to a valid mountpoint.  You can see a list of
>mointpoints on your system by using the df command.
>
>Unless someone can suggest something better...
>