Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-03 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Dave Sill on Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:34:20 EST: > >... At any rate, it looks like things have calmed down on the list > >server and I am wondering if I should just delete all those pid files as > >I'm beginning to wonder if they are mistakes made by qmail-queue when it > >couldn't comple

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-03 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... At any rate, it looks like things have calmed down on the list >server and I am wondering if I should just delete all those pid files as >I'm beginning to wonder if they are mistakes made by qmail-queue when it >couldn't complete it's tasks due to

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Dave Sill on Tue, 02 Nov 1999 13:45:20 EST: > The files under queue/pid are empty. qmail-queue moves them to > queue/mess before writing the message to the file. This is all > documented in INTERNALS in the build directory: Thanks for quoting that for me... I could have read that myself

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. Right on both counts. >... I do know that all the files in queue/pid are 0 byte files though. >Does this ma

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Andy Bradford
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 1 > >of them. Probably no way I can recover these... There were messages in > >/var/lo

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thus said Dave Sill on Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:23:11 EST: > >> qmail-queue puts messages in queue/pid before moving them to >> queue/mess. If messages are staying in queue/pid, they're not being >> queued successfully. You should be seeing error messages when

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Dave Sill on Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:23:11 EST: > qmail-queue puts messages in queue/pid before moving them to > queue/mess. If messages are staying in queue/pid, they're not being > queued successfully. You should be seeing error messages when > qmail-queue is run, e.g., from qmail-inject.

Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?

1999-11-02 Thread Dave Sill
Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a server that does not seem to want to send out any email. If I >start and stop the qmail daemons it will will send out bounced messages but >it doesn't send out any email that should be directed to mailing lists. >All the aliases are in place