On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:03:32AM -0000, Martin Ouwehand wrote:
> One of our user did something strange (and he wasn't available for comment,
> as the press says), some kind of double loop, where each mail to him
> would generate two replies (fresh ones, i.e. no way for qmail to detect
> loops or to many hops) that would bounce, etc.
>
> Anyhow, the queue was full of mails no one was ever going to read ( ~12'000
> of them). What I did: kill qmail-send, remove info/nnn remote/nnn and *then*
> mess/nnn (because of the i-node number trick) for each of those useless
> messages. This took quite some time, but fairly early I noticed that
> qmail-send was still alive, so I did a "kill -9" of it, but this means
> that some messages were removed with qmail-send and children running.
> (qmail-smtpd's were running all along, i.e. I didn't kill tcpserver).
>
> How dangerous is this ? Apparently, it did no harm, which drives me
> to ask: what manipulations of the queue are "safe" with qmail-send
> and/or qmail-smtpd's running ? Any tips/URL's are welcome.
Removing messages from under qmail-send's ass should not give any problems
theoretically, just lots of warnings in the logs.
kill -9 qmail-send IS a bad thing tho.. you should always just kill
qmail-send and _wait_ for it to exit.
Greetz, Peter
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