From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 1:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ngo.org.uk (ngo.org.uk [193.62.43.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D5837B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mac@localhost) by ngo.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA02376 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:48:18 +0100 (BST) From: Mac Message-Id: <200009220848.JAA02376@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: sendmail and cron In-Reply-To: from Ryan Thompson at "Sep 21, 0 05:29:49 pm" To: ryan@sasknow.com (Ryan Thompson) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:42:35 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-question@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, > Hey everybody, > > Anything wrong with a cron job that runs sendmail -q at specific > intervals? Or must I invoke the daemon with -q[time]? Nope, nothing wrong at all. As Doug Barton points out elsewhere on this list 'Why should there be?'. Also, The Bat Book II [see footnote] says (on page 373) when talking about the un-adorned '-q' option:- This mode can be run interactively from the command-line or in the background via cron(8). So, I'd say go for it. (Oh, and buy _and_read_ the Bat Book II). Mac [1] Footnote: 'The Bat Book II' is 'sendmail, 2nd Edition' from O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message