[Mimedefang] Automatic tempfail recovery

[Aaron Paetznick]

Thanks for the script.  I have it running every 20 minutes right now.  A 
more elegant built-in disaster recover solution would be better, but 
this will work fine.  Thanks!


--Aaron



Kelson Vibber wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2003 07:47 am, Aaron Paetznick wrote:
> 
>>Would it be possible to have MIMEDefang check for a tempfail state and
>>attempt to restart itself every configurable period of time?  I would
>>have it default to checking once every 3 minutes or so.  Opinions?
> 
> 
> I run the attached script as a cron job every 10 minutes.  It checks the end 
> of the maillog for a large number of "initialization failed" messages, then 
> restarts MD.
> 
> We used to have a bigger problem with this, but it's only been triggered twice 
> in the past 4 months.  Of course, both of those were in the middle of the 
> night, so I was really glad the script was in place!
>