Re: periodic.conf: unable to send emails

• Subject: Re: periodic.conf: unable to send emails
• From: Giorgio Valoti <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:55:04 +0200
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Giorgio Valoti <email@hidden> wrote:

In the previous post you showed that by wrapping the periodic call inside
another script that also sleeps for a second you can make it work. However,
I'd expect to have to make it sleep for at least 10 seconds, right? Also,
why is this workaround needed only for Leopard server?

Very good questions - and one I don't know the answers. :/

I will say this: I use docs as a guide and then test to find out what
really happens, especially to identify boundary conditions.

It may be not so much the amount of sleep, as the call itself. I did
test via 'time' and see that daily generally takes less than 1 second
on my system, so adding 1 second certainly doesn't bump it above 10.
Or maybe any call would do there. (I did also generate a quick
/etc/periodic/daily/999.daily.delay which just does "sleep 60", but
this also ran fine, but failed to email.)

I have been unable to find the applicable difference between MOSX &
MOSXS systems i this case; it's vexing.

Thank you
--
Giorgio Valoti

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