[16236] in Athena Bugs
Re: Case 118835: sgi [8.2.9]: root's crontab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Aug 26 14:51:00 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: JWEISS@MIT.EDU, rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:20:58 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:50:53 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I noticed the following line in root's crontab:
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /sbin/chkconfig sendmail;if
> test $? -ne 0 || /sbin/chkconfig smap; then /usr/lib/sendmail -q > /dev/null
> 2>&1; fi
>
> I don't know if we really care, but it does seem a little redundant
> since we run sendmail -q once an hour (desync'd) regardless of whether
> chkconfig sendmail is true (presumably due to mkserv mail or similar)
> or anything else.
>
>
> (Yes, "go away" is a reasonable response to this report. :-)
> --- Entry: Wednesday, Aug 26, 1998 10:20 AM -- mbarker ---
> Bob? Is this something we should fix?
I suppose we should just have one sendmail -q entry, desync'ed; I'll do
a patch...
Bob
