[25279] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena-sendmail does not run a queue flush daemon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Nov 3 21:06:38 2003
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:06:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1067911484.29272.121.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (Greg
Hudson's message of "Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:04:44 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
Fair enough. It's being run, which is what I really care about.
Thanks.
You can close out this bug.
-derek
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