So you were right after all. I just didn't see what was the problem, if there was no problem.
== Rene -----Original Message----- From: Nikos Balkanas [mailto:nbalka...@gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 16 juli 2010 10:05 To: Ulf Urden; Rene Kluwen Cc: users@kannel.org Subject: Re: Kannel store/queue Yes. You can always start bb in supended mode and check its store from the HTTP admin interface. At any time if you want to block outgoing SMS from kannel use the HTTP admin to switch to suspended mode. Read User's guide. If using store, before starting up you can rm -rf <store> to the same effect. Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulf Urden" <ulf.ur...@purplescout.se> To: "Rene Kluwen" <rene.klu...@chimit.nl> Cc: "Nikos Balkanas" <nbalka...@gmail.com>; <users@kannel.org> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:55 AM Subject: Re: Kannel store/queue >> So to my understanding he wants to purge the queue before starting >> Kannel. >> Ulf: Can you clarify your question? > > Hi! > > Yes, sorry my question was a bit unclear. I'll rephrase: my system sent > out SMS's it shouldn't have. Not Kannels fault, it did what it supposed to > do. But before I start the Kannel daemon again I want to purge any pending > messages. > > Maybe I don't need to? I interpret Nikos' reply as Kannel only keeps > messages in memory if no store/spool is defined. If that is the case the > messages would have been purged when shutting down Kannel? > > Thanks for all the help, btw! > > BR, > Ulf. > > Software Engineer > Purple Scout > www.purplescout.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nikos Balkanas [mailto:nbalka...@gmail.com] > Sent: donderdag 15 juli 2010 15:13 > To: Rene Kluwen; 'Ulf Urden'; users@kannel.org > Subject: Re: Kannel store/queue > > Rene, > > To my understanding Ulf just wants a quick, clean shutdown. He thinks that > queue is his problem, but I don't think so with the traffic he has, so > that's why I am asking for his logs... > > BR, > Nikos > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rene Kluwen" <rene.klu...@chimit.nl> > To: "'Nikos Balkanas'" <nbalka...@gmail.com>; "'Ulf Urden'" > <ulf.ur...@purplescout.se>; <users@kannel.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:58 PM > Subject: RE: Kannel store/queue > > >>I think that Ulf wants to have NO queue. Instead of a spool queue. >> >> == Rene >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users-boun...@kannel.org [mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org] On >> Behalf >> Of Nikos Balkanas >> Sent: donderdag 15 juli 2010 11:42 >> To: Ulf Urden; users@kannel.org >> Subject: Re: Kannel store/queue >> >> Hi, >> >> Simple answer. You can't. SMS is asynchronous, therefore multiple queues >> have been implemented. Even if you don't have a file queue, Kannel still >> has >> >> a lot of memory queues. By typeing <Ctrl-C> twice, kannel will die >> immediately, but you will loose all pending SMS in memory. >> >> You should have a file storage. In fact having all sms in memory is >> causing >> kannel to delay, since it tries to process these SMS before quitting. >> File >> storage doesn't affect that behaviour, and on top of that will preserve >> SMS >> if you try a double <Ctrl-C>. >> >> Configure store-type as spool. If you still get problems shutting down, >> please post maximum detail bb logs of your shutdown attempt. >> >> BR, >> Nikos >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ulf Urden" <ulf.ur...@purplescout.se> >> To: <users@kannel.org> >> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:47 AM >> Subject: Kannel store/queue >> >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'm trying to find out the default behavior of Kannel when no store or >>> spool is defined. >>> >>> I have a system that, using HTTP requests to Kannel, send SMS's to end >>> users. The typical usage is around a few hundred SMS's per day. Because >>> my >> >>> system is now about to be upgraded, I shut down the daemon that sends >>> the >>> requests to Kannel, but unfortunately that was not enough to stop >>> sending >>> SMS's because Kannel seemed to throttle and queue the requests, >>> spreading >>> out messages 24hrs after that until I shut down /etc/init.d/kannel. >>> >>> There are no stores in my /etc/kannel/kannel.conf >>> >>> Neither store-type nor store-location is defined in it. Will Kannel keep >>> a >> >>> persistent disk queue somewhere anyway? >>> >>> I need to make sure Kannel has no queue or pending messages when I start >>> the daemon. How can I do that? >>> >>> I'm using 1.4.1-2, Debian Lenny. >>> >>> BR, >>> Ulf >>> >>> Software Engineer >>> Purple Scout >>> www.purplescout.com >>> >> >> >> >> > > >
