[H-GEN] Logwatch - sendmail loadaverage?

[David Jericho]

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Bradley Marshall wrote:

> Sendmail is configured to start just queuing messages at a
> certain load, and then start refusing connections entirely at
> another (higher) load.
> The sendmail.cf config is:
>   O QueueLA=8
>   O RefuseLA=12

Don't edit the sendmail.cf file directly. It's apparently bad voodoo. 
Eric Allman says so. It'd be like editing the Windows registry by hand 
instead of using the appropriate clicky tool.

To set the above variables in the correct locations, put the below into 
sendmail.mc

define(`confQUEUE_LA',`insert number here')
define(`confREFUSE_LA',`insert another number here')

Then, run "make" in that directory. Restart sendmail and check out your 
new sendmail.cf file.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software


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