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- From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
- Subject: Re: Generating Errors-To: lines
- Message-ID: <BtzAB4.KzI@wsrcc.com>
- Organization: W S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Fremont CA
- References: <1992Aug31.211914.1850@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Aug31.225102.17372@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:18:39 GMT
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- rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
- >The usual trick is to change your first alias to:
- >ansa-streams: |"/usr/lib/sendmail -fansa-streams-request -oi -odq ansa-streams-list"
-
- I have started doing a variant of this to deflect errors for my
- mail-news gateway. Actually I use:
-
- ansa-streams: |"/usr/lib/sendmail -fansa-streams-request ansa-streams-list"
-
- That is, I use a deliver immidiately sendmail mode.
-
- The problem that I've just sort of been ignoring is that when a
- boatload of 13 mailing list entries come in, in one uucp transfer the
- /bin/rmail's get fired off in quick succession. This fires off two
- sendmails per entry. This in tern fires of a mail2news program, which
- fires off an inews. Perhaps I missed one or two, but you get the
- idea. Lots of programs get executed for each individual msg. Whats
- worse, is that each msg's programs run more or less concurrently with
- the other msgs programs. This causes the disks to rattle and the load
- average to soar.
-
- Anyone have a solution? I've been putting off running with -odq since
- it really only serializes the second sendmail run and doesn't really
- do anything for the other concurrent executions.
-
- -wolfgang
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