[25278] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-sendmail does not run a queue flush daemon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 3 21:04:47 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <sjmad7czygo.fsf@kikki.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:04:44 -0500
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:58, Derek Atkins wrote:
> No, I was just impatient and didn't see a sendmail running. Is there
> some reason to prefer running out of cron vs. as a queue daemon?
The historical reason was so that it didn't sit resident in the process
list and take up memory. Now, that doesn't really matter, but it would
still be a pain to switch and I don't see any reason to do so.
