http://home.zyrianes.net/blog/Articles/145/ <div class="contents topic" id="contents"> <p class="topic-title"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p> <ul class="simple"> <li><a class="reference" href="#repair-the-queue" id="id1" name="id1">Repair the queue</a></li> <li><a class="reference" href="#setup-as-mx-secondary-for-a-domain" id="id2" name="id2">Setup as MX secondary for a domain</a></li> <li><a class="reference" href="#watch-qmail-logs-with-date-time" id="id3" name="id3">Watch qmail logs with date/time</a></li> </ul> </div> <p>This short article enumerates tips for qmail (a reminder for me):</p> <div class="section" id="repair-the-queue"> <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1" name="repair-the-queue">Repair the queue</a></h1> <p>The queue is located here : /var/qmail/queue/ , you can repair it with queue_repair ( <a class="reference" href="http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/">http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/</a> ).</p> <p>command:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> ./queue_repair.py -c -s 23 --no-bigtodo /var/qmail </pre> <p>see: <a class="reference" href="http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/docs.html#docs">http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/queue_repair/docs.html#docs</a> -c create and repair -s 23 number of split directories --no-bigtodo if your qmail don't use the qmail big-todo patch</p> </div> <div class="section" id="setup-as-mx-secondary-for-a-domain"> <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" name="setup-as-mx-secondary-for-a-domain">Setup as MX secondary for a domain</a></h1> <p>It's quite simple, add the domain in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts of each recorded MX secondary. And, restarts qmail (just kill -HUP).</p> <p>exemple:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> server1.domain1.tld has: MX 10 server1.domain1.tld MX 20 server2.domain2.tld on server2.domain2.tld, in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file add line: server1.domain1.tld </pre> </div> <div class="section" id="watch-qmail-logs-with-date-time"> <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" name="watch-qmail-logs-with-date-time">Watch qmail logs with date/time</a></h1> <p>Qmail use a special log format for the date and the time (maybe seconds number since 1/1/1970 ). tai64nlocal shows user fiendly date/time.</p> <p>exemple:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> # tail -f /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal 2005-02-10 14:07:55.565508500 delivery 3973: success: did_1+0+0/ 2005-02-10 14:07:55.565510500 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 2005-02-10 14:07:55.565511500 end msg 52055 2005-02-10 14:27:01.610629500 new msg 52055 </pre> </div> en The contents of this blog are available for non-commercial use only. Alinea http://pythonfr.org/alinea/ http://home.zyrianes.net/blog/Comments/16/ http://home.zyrianes.net/blog/Comments/16/ Ludo 2004-10-29T15:27:27Z http://home.zyrianes.net/blog/Comments/15/ http://home.zyrianes.net/blog/Comments/15/ Jkx 2004-10-20T21:06:05Z