From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 11:32:21 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986C937B66C; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9CIVZi22942; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001012141830.B37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Cc: Matt Dillon , Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , Tony Finch , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Jordan Hubbard , John Hay Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Oct-00 Bill Fumerola wrote: > Well on the subject of the daily/weekly/monthly e-mails, maybe they > should background a sleep SOMEREASONABLENUMBER && sendmail -q > so sendmail doesn't have to be running at all but the notifications > get sent out. This would be an ugly half-hearted hack, not a solution. > As to Jordan's response that "he gets them all the time", well I do > too, but if there happens to be some transient network failure at the > time (normally me fucking with the network during the maintainence > window that occurs at the same time as the daily scripts) then that > daily message will sit in the queue forever. If we at least run > 'sendmail -q' once a day, we manually emulate '-q1d' without the "problem" > of sendmail running in the background. This would be dumb. To quote yourself: "You're a moron." The overhead of starting up sendmail and having it reparse all the cf files and fork/exec, swap in, etc. compared to having it register a SIGALARM handler and then just sit in a process queue rarely if ever executing for 1 day while it waits for the clock stuff to wake it up is insane. Sheesh. People would do well to actually learn about how stuff works before complaining about non-existent overhead. > *shrug* -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message