[CentOS] Re: Cron not sending e-mails anymore

Thu Jul 27 12:02:49 UTC 2006
Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com>

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Ugo Bellavance schrieb:
>>
>>> I found something.
>>>
>>> The script does a -HUP on sendmail, so here is what I see in maillog is:
>>>
>> Why does it do so?
> 
> Because the script's purpose is to sync sendmail configs among many mail
> servers.
> 
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[19016]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>> due to signal
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[19018]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>> due to signal
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sm-msp-queue[19032]: restarting
>>> /usr/sbin/sendmail due to signal
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25475]: k6QE01aW025475: from=root,
>>> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, relay=root at localhost
>>>  
>>>
>> That is not really a mail: it has zero size and zero recipient. Could be
>> a script that probes whether the MTA is alife.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25579]: starting daemon (8.13.7):
>>> queueing at 00:15:00
>>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25581]: starting daemon (8.13.7): SMTP
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like sendmail may not be ready yet...
>>>  
>>>
>> Sendmail restarts as to what the log says.
>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>> `mailq -Ac -v' has content? Then there is a problem with mail
>> submission, as cron directly injects the mail.
> 
> /var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
>                 Total requests: 0
> 

Any ideas how I could make my script so that I can submit the mail
without problem even if I do a killall -HUP sendmail during the script?

Regards,

Ugo