On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, David F. Skoll wrote: > You can split the Sendmail queue so that the "df" and "qf" files (which > *must* survive a crash) are on permanent storage, but the temporary > "xf" transaction files are on a ramdisk. Someone else mentioned > this; I don't have the reference offhand.
Taken from O'Reilly's "sendmail Cookbook" chapter 9, section 2 by Craig Hunt (highly recommended BTW): " Create a new queue directory structure with separate directories for df, qf, and xf queue files. umask 077 mkdir /var/spool/mqueue.new cd /var/spool/mqueue.new mkdir df qf xf Move the old queue directory out of the way so that the new queue directory structure can be given the pathname defined by the QueueDirectory option in the sendmail.cf file. mv /var/spool/mqueue /var/spool/mqueue.old mv /var/spool/mqueue.new /var/spool/mqueue Start another copy of sndmail as a queue runner to drain the old queue. Use the -O arguement on the sendmail command line to point the quue runner to the old queue. sendmail -L sm-oldq -q15m -O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.old " Sendmail will automagically use the df, qf and xf directories if they exist within QueueDirectory. Knowing this you can easily mount a tmpfs volume to xf to reap the benefits. Don't forget the queue runner for the old queue directory though. HTH Justin PS==> Did I mention that it's an excellent book? http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/ _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
