Re: Limiting scheduler retries...

[Andy Poling <andy@globalauctions.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Potter wrote:
> We're regularly getting large numbers of local retries that are failing
> because of quota problems.
> 
> We're loging to syslog with the following entry typical:
> 
> ===== Syslog ===========================
> Jul 13 00:02:58 halifax mailbox[16493]: S.pe.pv42981: 
> to=<az999@chebucto.ns.ca>, delay=25:50:31, xdelay=00:00:00, 
> mailer=local, stat=retryat +3600 header write to "/var/mail/az999"
-----------------------------^^^^^

Here is the reason: 3600 seconds is one hour. 


> failed
> ========================================
> 
> Other entries for S.pe.pv42981 show the following retries...
> 
>         	Interval		
> 		hh:mm
> 12:02:58 AM		delay=25:50:31	
> 01:58:42 AM	01:55	delay=27:46:15	
> 02:03:00 AM	00:04	delay=27:50:33	
> 03:02:59 AM	00:59	delay=28:50:32	
> 04:03:02 AM	01:00	delay=29:50:35	
> 05:03:05 AM	01:00	delay=30:50:38	
> 06:03:01 AM	00:59	delay=31:50:34	
> 07:07:59 AM	01:04	delay=32:55:32	
> 08:52:59 AM	01:45	delay=34:40:32	
> 09:23:38 AM	00:30	delay=35:11:11	
> 11:43:08 AM	02:19	delay=37:30:41	
> 01:26:24 PM	01:43	delay=39:13:57	
> 
> This does not seem to correspond to what we're hoping to get 
> from scheduler.conf

The retryat diagnostic takes precedence.  What you probably want to do (what
I did when faced with this problem) is to issue a different retryat
diagnostic in the case of a quota failure... I think I used 8 hours for
instance.

-Andy

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