On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote:
> I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if > (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go > online and force a queue run. Afterwards I go offline. > The problem I encountered is that exim does it queue run in the > backgroud which in generel might be a good idea but it is not in my > case since I have to do a while loop after initiating the queue run > until there is nothing more in the queue. This might raise problems if > my smarthost is down due to some reason and I never can flush the > mails. > So I'ld like to know wheter there is a way to tell exim to do it's > queue run in the foreground and exit when everything is done. The queue run is started by the script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim. You could either remove it or (perhaps better) modify it to create a lock file while the queue is running. An alternative approach is to use something like diald to bring the link up and down as needed. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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