Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <XFMail.001012113211.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001012141830.B37870@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On 12-Oct-00 Bill Fumerola wrote: > Well on the subject of the daily/weekly/monthly e-mails, maybe they > should background a sleep SOMEREASONABLENUMBER && sendmail -q > so sendmail doesn't have to be running at all but the notifications > get sent out. This would be an ugly half-hearted hack, not a solution. > As to Jordan's response that "he gets them all the time", well I do > too, but if there happens to be some transient network failure at the > time (normally me fucking with the network during the maintainence > window that occurs at the same time as the daily scripts) then that > daily message will sit in the queue forever. If we at least run > 'sendmail -q' once a day, we manually emulate '-q1d' without the "problem" > of sendmail running in the background. This would be dumb. To quote yourself: "You're a moron." The overhead of starting up sendmail and having it reparse all the cf files and fork/exec, swap in, etc. compared to having it register a SIGALARM handler and then just sit in a process queue rarely if ever executing for 1 day while it waits for the clock stuff to wake it up is insane. Sheesh. People would do well to actually learn about how stuff works before complaining about non-existent overhead. > *shrug* -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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