Phil Pennock rearranged electrons thusly:
I wrote:
> > fetchmail&
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q&
> I'm confused. Why are you starting fetchmail in the background? If
> there's one large mail, the sendmail will exit, mailq will show nothing,
that is one problem which hasn't cropped up yet - I was trying to speed things
up, sort of (dialups are rather expensive in India)
> Concurrent processes -- no guaranteed execution order, no guaranteed
> ordering to their actions, unless explicitly arranged, etc etc.
Right.
> #!/bin/sh
> fetchmail -s &
> fetchpid=$!
Will test and write back. thanks - sounds quite feasible.
> Or, if you're happy with having multiple MTA queue-runners, background
> the "sendmail -q" and then stick a "wait" at the end of the script.
> Since "wait" without arguments waits for all jobs to finish, this could
> be used with the version you provided which was modified from the
> Postfix FAQ too.
This sounds like the best option to me.
Thanks, Phil.
-suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
