Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126760
[PATCH] method to specify persistent queue runners?
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:02 EST
For my site, I need to be able to run persistent queue runners instead of regular queue runners. A regular queue runner is invoked with the "-q" option: /usr/sbin/sendmail -q1h A persistent queue runner is invoked with the "-qp" option: /usr/sbin/sendmail -qp1h The problem is that the sendmail init.d script (and sysconfig file) don't permit a way to say "run persistent queue runners instead of regular queue runners". For now, I've just edited my sendmail init.d script to do what I want. But I'd like to find a cleaner, more general solution. The current syntax for the sendmail sysconfig file is: DAEMON=yes QUEUE=1h SMQUEUE=1h I was thinking of adding support for two more variables, used thusly: QUEUEFLAG=-q1h SMQUEUEFLAG=-q1h QUEUEFLAG, if specified, overrides QUEUE; SMQUEUEFLAG, if specified, overrides SMQUEUE. Rather than just specifying the interval, the *FLAG variables specify the exact -q flag to pass to sendmail. Thus, I could do what I want putting this in my sendmail sysconfig file: DAEMON=yes QUEUEFLAG=-qp1s SMQUEUEFLAG=-qp1s If you find this solution acceptable, please indicate as much and I'll supply a patch to implement it. Alternatively, if there is some other method you'd prefer to use to add this functionality, please let me know.
Actually, since the option for a persistent queue runner ("-qp") has the option for a regular queue runner ("-q") as a prefix, perhaps it would be better to just overload the use of QUEUE and SMQUEUE. E.g.: DAEMON=yes QUEUEFLAG=p1s SMQUEUEFLAG=p1s This requires a small patch to the sendmail init.d script, which I'll attach next.
Created attachment 101458 [details] patch for sendmail init.d script
Internal RFE bug #129473 entered; will be considered for future releases.
Closing as "WONTFIX".
Why? I mean, the sendmail init.d file isn't even consistent right now: daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "x$DAEMON" = xyes ] && echo -bd) \ $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE) $SENDMAIL_OPTARG Versus: daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac \ -q $SMQUEUE $SENDMAIL_OPTARG (This is still true with sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm in Nahant.) Why is my 1-line patch to use "-q$SMQUEUE" instead of "-q $SMQUEUE" not acceptable?
Any progress on this? I know that sendmail currently treats e.g. "-q 1h" as equivalent to "-q1h", but that behavior isn't documented anywhere that I've been able to find, so I think it would be best to apply my one-line patch.
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This has been fixed for RHEL-4+
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