On 21 Jul 1999, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >What are the functions of the 'todo' and 'intd' directories? There are
> >tons of msgs in them and qmail does not seem to be processing them. I have
> >moved the files out of the directory (backed them up) and moved a small
> >amt. of them back in to see if the dirs. were just overloaded, restarted
>
> Off the cuff, won't that moving around create problems with the
> inode->filename mapping?
Do not know...
>
> Once that's resolved, maybe the reason the mails didn't go out
> was the trigger? You should have
>
> # ls -lA ${QMAIL}/queue/lock/
> -rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 19 1998 sendmutex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Jul 13 11:03 tcpto
> prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 21 15:32 trigger|
elvis# ls -la /var/qmail/queue/lock/
total 3
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Jul 20 16:17 .
drwxr-x--- 13 qmailq qmail 512 Jul 20 16:17 ..
-rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 17 02:54 sendmutex
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Jul 20 16:17 tcpto
prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 20 16:17 trigger
>
> The special file there has an annoying habit of being corrupted
> (not that it's ever happened to me, but it seems to be a
> recurrent problem on this list).
>
> IMO, the qmail queue is very fragile when people with root start
> poking around in it (and not otherwise).
>
Thanks.
- Todd
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