On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:08:15PM +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On 04-Jan-99 Mate Wierdl wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:03:14PM +0000, Sam wrote:
> > >
> > > > : : % /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue
> > > > : : ^Z
> > > > : : Suspended
> > > > : : % kill -9 %1
> > > > : : [1] Killed /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue
> > > > : : %
> > > > : :
> > > > : :There will be one more zero-length file, owned by qmail, without
> > > > : :any user identification whatsoever. It is an exercise for the
> > >
> > > qmail-queue is a setuid program. Did UNIX change, while I was out of town,
> > > and you can now send signals to processes of different userids?
> >
> > Not only that, but the above works w/o the -9 flag.
>
> IIRC, qmail-queue should not be called by
> someone wanting to submit mail (see doc/PIC*).
> A better test would be to use qmail-inject:
>
> /var/qmail# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
>
> [1] + 2728 Suspended /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
> /var/qmail# kill %1
> /var/qmail#
> [1] Terminated /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
> /var/qmail# find . -size 0
> ./control/locals
> ./alias/.qmail-postmaster
> ./alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
> ./alias/.qmail-root
> ./alias/Mailbox
> ./queue/lock/sendmutex
> ./queue/lock/trigger
> /var/qmail#
>
> There's no empty file. I tried it with partial messages, and
> there never are file droppings left in the queue.
> But yes, if we are to be paranoid, qmail-queue should clean up
> when no message has been queued, or when it's interrupted by
> a signal that can be caught.
And how to fix kill -9?
Greetz, Peter.
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