Thus said Dave Sill on Tue, 02 Nov 1999 13:32:55 EST:
> >Hmm, well if it puts messages in there then it looks as if I have lost a
> >lot of messages. Each file is 0 bytes in length and there are about 10000
> >of them. Probably no way I can recover these... There were messages in
> >/var/log/mail about qmail-queue not being able to write them. I wonder if
> >it was unable to write them to queue/pid as well. At any rate, the problem
> >was that the "trigger" pipe was not there. After I recreated that with
> >mkfifo all seemed to return to normal. So, what is the purpose of the
> >named pipe?
>
> I don't think that a missing trigger would cause your problems.
> qmail-queue uses trigger to tell qmail-send that there's a new message
> in the queue. If trigger is fubared, qmail-send doesn't see new
> messages until it makes it's regular 20-minute rounds.
I see, so even if trigger isn't there it will check the queue and send out
the mail therein. Which doesn't help if nothing is in the queue.
> Did you run qmail-lint, "make check", both, or neither?
This is on a machine at work and so I haven't had the chance to check it
yet. I do know that all the files in queue/pid are 0 byte files though.
Does this matter or are they simply a tracking mechanism?
Andy
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