On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:04:26PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > I got some of the missing linux kernel archives, but they are in mbox format. I > know I can use formail to split them out, but last time I did that from a > "remote machine" formail "killed" the box, too many open AF_UNIX connection. > > (Aside, people who said they would send me their old posts, please still do it, > I'll remove duplicates via Message-IDs). > > Think I was smart, I moved archives to the listserv, so I could inject the old > message locally, but that gave me VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached. > > Since the was the tclug mbox and it was small compared to the linux-kernel mbox > I'm sure I'll run into these problems again. > > Anyway to make formail wait like 5s between sends? > > This is what I tried last time: > > cat f1 | formail -d -n 1 -s /usr/lib/sendmail linux-kernel at lists.real-time.com > > Any help would be appreciated. Pipe it though procmail and put a delay and a file in the "procmailrc" file you specify in the procmail command line. UNIX: Easy things easy and hard things possible.(*) florin (*) Actual slogan "borrowed" from Perl. -- "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/20011026/9bebeb64/attachment.pgp