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Re: What ho mailq bug?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Fri Jan 24 14:19:29 1997

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 14:19:21 -0500 (EST)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[836] in Release_7.7_team"

> 35 * * * *	/etc/athena/desync; /usr/bin/find /usr/spool/mqueue -name "lf*" -links 1 -mtime +0 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
> 
> The third option is about a 75% fix for almost no effort.  What do
> people think?

How about instead adding something to reactivate that does an ls and a
ps (or whatever), and if there are lockfiles but no sendmails running,
it deletes the lockfiles and does a queue run. This should get rid of
the 24-hour lag time (except on private machines that rarely
reactivate).

-- Dan

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