Changeset b9e96a3

Timestamp:

01/11/2003 05:58:10 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Billy O 'Connor <billyoc@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v1_0, v5_0, v5_0-pre1, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

368512b3

Parents:

41ece9f

Message:

Add explanation of -q flag and change default to 5 minutes.
Change to newaliases -v to process alias file.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@592 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

server/mail/sendmail

Files:

• sendmail-config.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• sendmail-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

server/mail/sendmail/sendmail-config.xml

@@ -19 +19 @@
 cp -R  /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/submit.mc . &&
 cp -R  /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/sendmail.mc . &&
-sendmail -v -bi &&
-/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q1m
+newaliases -v &&
 </userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>To start and stop sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the
 sendmail boot script with the following commands: </para>
+
+<note><para>The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls
+how often Sendmail will process the mail queue.&nbsp;&nbsp;A default of 5
+minutes is used here.&nbsp;&nbsp;Individual workstation users may want to set
+this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will
+want to set it higher.</para></note>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
@@ -40 +45 @@
         start)
         echo "Starting sendmail..."
-        loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q1m start
+        loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
         ;;
 

server/mail/sendmail/sendmail-inst.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
 directories that sendmail uses with the following commands:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>
-groupadd -g 18 smmsp &amp;&amp;
-groupadd -g 19 mail &amp;&amp;
-useradd -g smmsp -G mail -u 18 smmsp &amp;&amp;
+groupadd smmsp &amp;&amp;
+groupadd mail &amp;&amp;
+useradd -g smmsp -G mail -u smmsp &amp;&amp;
 chmod 1777 /tmp &amp;&amp;
 chmod 1777 /var/mail &amp;&amp;