Re: Force mailqueue to send?
> There is no standard unix. The semantics of killall vary among unices, > therefore Thomas is right to comment on my use of 'killall'. i think there is. the famous POSIX is a standart AFAIK but not all unixes are POSIX compliant. andd the command that sends the TERM signal to all the processes in Linux is called "killall5". dd
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
Hi, > > killall -ALRM qmail-send > > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. and IRIX folks. It happened to me, used to the IRIX behaviour, to bring down an HP-UX 9 workstation. claudio -- Claudio Nieder,Symmetrix AG,Seefeldstr. 231,CH-8008 Zürich phn:+411 381 8880 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.symmetrix.ch fax:+411 381 2127
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
Michael Boman writes: > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? Yes. Send qmail-send an alarm signal. Under Linux (not Solaris!!) you: killall -A qmail-send -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 08:35:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? > > > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok > > killall -ALRM qmail-send > > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. > It's not standard unix (so what?) and the only other place I've > encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes. Erm, I've seen killall in a bunch of places including a FreeBSD box, so I wouldn't say it's limited to just linux. --Adam > > > Greetz, Peter. > > -- > > Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder > > | > > | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; > > | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' > > | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++ > > > > -- > "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." > Thomas Erskine<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(613) 998-2836 >
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:38:42PM -, Petr Novotny wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24 Nov 99, at 8:35, thomas.erskine-dated-1071beae9be5271f@crc wrote: > > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. > > It's not standard unix (so what?) > > Uh? Since when is not *BSD a standard unix? There is no standard unix. The semantics of killall vary among unices, therefore Thomas is right to comment on my use of 'killall'. > > and the only other place I've > > encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes. > > Another reason to avoid SysV-based systems. :-) Redhat seems to call itself SysV-based, just like SuSE and Debian. I must say I _hate_ it. But let's not have that discussion here :) Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Nov 99, at 8:35, thomas.erskine-dated-1071beae9be5271f@crc wrote: > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. > It's not standard unix (so what?) Uh? Since when is not *BSD a standard unix? > and the only other place I've > encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes. Another reason to avoid SysV-based systems. :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBODv4g1MwP8g7qbw/EQKUCACgvjrSV88DdAzVnGbjjw9RP10eXKsAn0Ue bN8ebbszdhPBlJ4X05Sb94Lf =GfKc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 08:35:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? > > > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok > > killall -ALRM qmail-send > > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. > It's not standard unix (so what?) and the only other place I've > encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes. I thought of that the moment I pressed 'y' to send, and was in too much of a hurry (busy life :( to fix it And yes, I _have_ shot myself in the foot on Solaris :) Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok > killall -ALRM qmail-send All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning. It's not standard unix (so what?) and the only other place I've encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes. > Greetz, Peter. > -- > Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder > | > | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; > | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' > | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++ > -- "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." Thomas Erskine<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(613) 998-2836
RE: Force mailqueue to send?
Another good reason to use daemontools... Part of my init script... doqueue|alrm) echo "Sending ALRM signal to qmail-send." svc -a /var/lock/qmail/send Sends an ALRM signal and forces the queue to process. -Original Message- From: Anand Buddhdev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 8:00 AM To: Qmail Subject: Re: Force mailqueue to send? On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:47:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok > killall -ALRM qmail-send BEWARE: "killall" has different meanings on different OS's. On linux and FreeBSD, it sends the desired signal to the process named on the command line. On Solaris, it sends a TERM signal to ALL processes, effectively performing a shutdown. It's better to suggest a more generic solution, like: kill -1 and let the user determine the pid of qmail-send themselves. -- Anand
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:47:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok > killall -ALRM qmail-send BEWARE: "killall" has different meanings on different OS's. On linux and FreeBSD, it sends the desired signal to the process named on the command line. On Solaris, it sends a TERM signal to ALL processes, effectively performing a shutdown. It's better to suggest a more generic solution, like: kill -1 and let the user determine the pid of qmail-send themselves. -- Anand
Re: Force mailqueue to send?
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > Is it possible to force qmail to try send all the messages in the queue? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok killall -ALRM qmail-send Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
