I think I will try to use the symlik and then run qmail queue-fix program.
I had nice results a little bit ago moving a whole system to another
drive. I tarred everything and opened to the filesystems in new disk.
The only thing which didnt work was again qmail trigger file (I assumed
but might be something else) I ran the qmail-queue-fix program and
everything is working.
Now I think that trigger file was not the problem but the inode numbers
which are changed when I tar the directory and open back was.
Also now I know that I can just move the queue directory symlink it then
run qmail queue-fix program and everything will work.
Thanks
Evren
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Peter Palmreuther wrote:
> Hi Evren,
>
> Please don't send any reply to me privately unless explicitely
> requested. I do read the list (else I wouldn't have been able to answer
> your question) and I don't need two or more copies of one mail.
> Thank you.
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:17:36 +0300 (WET) Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> [quoting fixed]
> >>> I know this is not the right list but do you know how can I change the
> >>> qmail's queue directory nicely? :) Is a little symlink to another
> >>> location would do? or would sacrifice too much of performance?
>
> >> It should work and not impact on performance /too/ much, but why do you
> >> want to change the location?
> >>
> >> But be aware the queue is empty before you switch over, files names used
> >> in queue directory are 'Inode-bound', simply moving the queue files will
> >> break them.
>
> > I want to change it because current queue directory is in /var/qmail/queue
> > and I figured out that the 256mbyte in /var filesystem might be
> > insufficient if there comes too much emails with attachments from my
> > customers at the same time. Plus the undeliverable ones etc.
>
> What about an extra partition for '/var/qmail/queue' that's simply
> mounted there? No need for symlinking, lots of space, not affected by a
> possible overflow in '/var/log', etc , etc ...
>
> > I thought I might use this qmail queue fix tool from qmail web page. I
> > simply dont know how to empty the queue ?
>
> Stop the SMTPD for no new mails coming in. Make your best attempt to
> stop processes that might inject mails locally.
> Send 'qmail-send' process an 'ALRM' signal. Wait.
>
> You'll /NOT/ loose any external mail that can't be delivered due to the
> fact the SMTP is down, /IF/ the foreing MTAs are configured correctly.
> They should keep the message "in queue" for several days until your MTA
> is up again (if you don't even have a backup MX for your domain).
>
> > Previously I had bad experience with lock/trigger file in queue directory.
>
> Maybe because 'qmail-send' still ran when you did something on this
> file? It's 'fifo', a 'name pipe' and qmail-send keeps a handle opened on
> this file. Stop qmail-send before moving anything and if you've any
> trouble moving 'lock/trigger' "as is" use 'mkfifo' to recreate it at
> it's new location.
>
> > I also wonder how to regenerate it with correct options in the new
> > filesystem. :) There was supposed to be a make command for that but :)
>
> 'make setup' in qmail source tree will generate the queue structure.
>
> But you can easliy
>
> pushd /var/qmail/queue
> find . -type d | \
> (cd /path/to/new/queue/dir;
> while read $DIRECTORY; do mkdir "$DIRECTORY" && \
> chown --reference=/var/qmail/queue/$DIRECTORY && \
> chmod --reference=/var/qmail/queue/$DIRETORY ;
> done)
>
> It's then two files to copy: './lock/{sendmutex,tcpto}' and the fifo
> './lock/trigger' that has to be created and you're done with creating a
> new, clean qmail-queue-structure.
> --
> Ciao,
> Pit
>
>
