Once upon a midnight dreary, Peter Gradwell had spoken clearly:
>At 4:49 pm +0100 4/2/99,the wonderful Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
>>Hmm. I don't see a signal handler for SIGALRM in the code, so I would
>>expect that to terminate qmail-lspawn and hence bring qmail-send
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>crashing down??
>
>it's in the FAQ:
>--
>7.2. How do I manually run the queue? I'd like qmail to try delivering
>all the remote messages right now.
>
>Answer: Give the qmail-send process an ALRM. (Do svc -a /var/run/qmail
^^^^^^^^^^
>if qmail is supervised.)
Right... but the original poster said that he was sending qmail-lspawn the
signal, not qmail-send.
Sending a signal to qmail-lspawn might send it into a tailspin, but there
are others on this list better to comment on that than I.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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