From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 16 10:43:42 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075E337B4EC; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id f1GIgsD21385 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:42:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [fec0:0:0:104::5]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id f1GIhQP14450 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:43:27 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1GIhQW32969; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:43:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:43:25 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Matt Dillon Cc: Brian Somers , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20010216194325.B32928@cicely5.cicely.de> References: <200102160018.f1G0I2106462@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010216191041.B32780@cicely5.cicely.de> <200102161821.f1GILOL99128@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200102161821.f1GILOL99128@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:21:24AM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:21:24AM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > I would recommend splitting the -bd and -q options in rc.conf ... > sendmail shouldn't be running both from the same process instance anyway. > (this from my experience running sendmail at BEST, at home, at Backplane, > etc...). Simply have two rc.conf variables for sendmail: > > sendmail_enable="YES" > sendmail_flags="-bd" > > sendmailq_enable="YES" # suggest you leave this on even if > sendmailq_flags="-q30m" # the sendmail daemon is turned off. > > Then get rid of the period entry for sendmail, it violates the rc.conf > configuration methodology in a very bad way. This way when people > upgrade, they will automatically get the queue-run code even if their > original rc.conf turned off the daemon. The only mod they have to make > to truely turn sendmail off is to add sendmailq_enable="NO". With this you can't rely on the pid file because they share the same. I've learned not to use it because it wasn't cofigureable in older sendmail versions but others may still make use of it. -- 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