Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:10:41 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20010216191041.B32780@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200102160018.f1G0I2106462@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:18:02AM %2B0000 References: <peter@FreeBSD.org> <200102160018.f1G0I2106462@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:18:02AM +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > I think this'd be more suited to being a daily script and should be > turn-offable in periodic.conf. > > It'd probably also be better to source the rc.conf files and not > bother doing anythin if $sendmail_flags contains '-[a-zA-Z]*q'. > > The reason I don't like /etc/crontab having this is that I keep all > (well, most of) my machines with virgin /etc/crontab files and all > local root crontabs are maintained with crontab(1). This just makes > the mergemaster bit one step longer (for people who don't want to run > this extra sendmail -q) :-( And I like to start sendmail with special parameters: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.cf -ODae=A=10.1.6.9 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.cf -ODae=Family=inet6,A=fec0:0:0:103::7 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.cf -ODae=A=127.0.0.1 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.cf -ODae=Family=inet6,A=::1 /usr/sbin/sendmail -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.cf -q30m /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -OLogLevel=14 -C /databases/mail/sendmail.mail2.cf -ODae=A=10.1.129.2 Yes - I am one of those who don't want to run this extra sendmail -q. Switchable via periodic.conf would be fine as it doesn't hurt when updateing once you've setup it properly. > > > peter 2001/02/14 17:34:37 PST > > > > Modified files: > > etc crontab > > Log: > > Manually run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q once a day. Folks seem to be too > > trigger happy and turn off sendmail_enable entirely (instead of setting > > sendmail_flags to -q30m instead). I have seen boxes with things like daily > > run reports that have sat in mailq for 5 months. Since /usr/sbin/sendmail > > is actually mailwrapper, this should be safe for the other plugins that > > provide the sendmail calling interface. > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.30 +5 -1 src/etc/crontab -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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