"resubmit" when crowded /deferred

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@rol.ru>]

Another smallish thing that I have in my bag is a cure for a trouble
that happens if your "deferred" directory becomes so crowded that shell
fails to expand "*".  It happend several times here when the server that
provides getpwnam() information went down for some time.  After it
happens, "resubmit" does not work anymore, forever.

I tried to make my solution as portable as I could; if you have GNU "mv"
the same thing can be done more elegant through "xargs".

Index: proto/zmailer.sh.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zmailer/proto/zmailer.sh.in,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 zmailer.sh.in
--- proto/zmailer.sh.in 2003/05/01 11:00:41     1.20
+++ proto/zmailer.sh.in 2003/05/06 14:09:27
@@ -271,7 +271,15 @@
             esac
             ;;
         resubmit)
-            (cd $POSTOFFICE/deferred && mv -i [0-9]* ../router) 2> /dev/null
+           (cd $POSTOFFICE/deferred && \
+           while :; do
+               FILES=`ls -f|grep '^[0-9]'|head -1000`
+               if [ "X$FILES" = "X" ]; then
+                   break
+               else
+                   mv $FILES ../router || exit 1;
+               fi
+           done) 2> /dev/null
             ;;
         bootclean)
             rm -f $POSTOFFICE/.pid.* 2> /dev/null


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