On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:22:56AM -0600, Steve Siegfried wrote: > It isn't strictly necessary to shut mail down while taking a backup. Just > "renice" all currently executing copies of sendmail to "+20" before backing up > /var/spool/mqueue, and then restore their priority to "0" afterward. > > Doing this effectively prevents those copies of sendmail from being scheduled > in the run queue unless there's absolutely nothing else to put in there... and > since your backup script will be running, there will be. I am not sure I agree with this. If process A is niced 20 and process B is whatever and process B is blocked for IO... process A runs! [Do try it at home:)] florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011208/50fe06e1/attachment.pgp