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RE: [milter-greylist] Crash of 4.0a [Was: Errors in sendmail with 4.0a1]

2007-05-28 by attila.bruncsak@itu.int

> Why do something so complex? You could instead run milter-greylist in
> the foreground inside an infinite loop, putting whatever else you like
> in the loop for notification and other cleanup, e.g.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> while true; do
>         ...some stuff...
>         /usr/local/bin/milter-greylist -D
>         ...some stuff...
> done &
> 
> If an infinite loop makes you nervous, you can create some safety that
> will exit the loop in the event of something like 5 relaunches in the
> space of 5 seconds.
> 
> Better than periodically checking the process table, IMHO.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	- Joel

Sure, you can do this way too...
The main point is to have notification about the re-lunch of milter-greylist,
since it is a major event which should not go unnoticed.

Bests,
Attila

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