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Subject: Re: Majordomo and crashed machines
From: Dave Barr <barr @ math . psu . edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:10:10 -0400
To: Rudy Amid <rudy @ hcl . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:06:15 EDT." <199507121206.IAA12876@mailhub.hcl.com>
References: <199507121206.IAA12876@mailhub.hcl.com>

In message <199507121206.IAA12876@mailhub.hcl.com>, Rudy Amid writes:
>I'm just wondering if Majordomo is able to recover from a system crash while
>processing the bulk sending (resend and sendmail)?  I have over 380 users
>in the list, and I'd hate to see Majordomo quits part way after a system
>failure.

Majordomo doesn't do sending of mail, sendmail does.  And yes, sendmail
does periodic checkpointing, and generally does recover well from a
system crash.  (to the degree that it can, given the inherent limits
of UNIX's filesystem)

--Dave


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