[13040] in Athena Bugs
decmips [7.7G]: /etc/rc & cron running sendmail -q
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 19 09:09:02 1994
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 09:08:56 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
System name: tla
Type and version: KN01 7.7G
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
see what processes were running on my workstation, but that's
only tangentially important right now. I noticed that there was a
process that looked a lot like:
sh -c sleep `echo $ADDR | awk -F. '{ print $4 * 13 }' `; /usr/lib/sendmail -q
What went wrong?
I realized that I almost never see this, which is strange,
since the fourth octet of TLA's IP addr is 218, and 218*13/60= ~47
minutes of sleep time.
It appears that /etc/rc does not suck the configuration information
out of /etc/athena/rc.conf. Since /etc/rc starts cron, there is no
way for cron to know what $ADDR is.
What should have happened?
add ". /etc/athena/rc.conf near the to of /etc/rc"
Yo, got any documentation, or other info?
Actually, the stagerring of sendmail queue running, doesn't
seem to work right on any platform. On the sun $ADDR appears to not
be defined, but inspecting the scripts show nothing obviously wrong.
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> Your "cron" job
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> echo $ADDR
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And the RS6000 doesn't even try to stagger things...
