simplest way to copy /etc/localdomains to another server

[SpiritAu]

Hi All,

We're looking at offering secondary MX on all our cpanel servers.

Now my thinking is we setup a second server somewhere with exim and use /etc/secondarymx.

What i'm thinking is whats the best way to copy /etc/localdomains (currently have 8 servers), to the offsite server, what i'm ideally looking for is a way to set it up so that if a transfer fails it dosn't blank out the file.

Now my thinking was using a PHP script to include /etc/localdomains.server1, /etc/localdomains.server2, etc...

Whats the best way to copy them across? I was thinking FTP but unsure if theres a better way.

Also thinking of having all mail on the secondary mx server being scanned for spam and viruses. Does anyone have any recommendations?

 

[SpiritAu]

Can't edit title - might have been better to name it "best way to do secondary mx for many cpanel servers"

 

[bignose]

you could use SCP to push the files from the servers to the one server that collects them all.

and just setup a public key so it doesn't ask for password.

make sure the remote machine recieves the files as a non root account, so you aren't giving unfettered root to root access.

 

[bazzi]

store it in a database and let your secondary mx servers get the domains every our (so do we do it).
The advantage is that you can have more production servers use the same secondary mx servers.

If people want to have the files, we will make it public.