Re: dma: could not pick up queue file

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024, at 7:37 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, at 3:35 PM, Daniel Tameling wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 08:58:21AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> 
>>> Based on that, I'll add this to /etc/periodic.conf:
>>> 
>>> # disable queuerun_enable to avoid conflict with dma
>>> daily_queuerun_enable="NO"
>>> 
>>> That comment is just to remind me what it's for.
>>> 
>>> Now it's just a matter of time. If there are no more incidents, I say you've solved it. Let's give it a few weeks.
>>> 
>>> Thank you. Good job. :)
>>
>> Thanks. If something is running automatically that isn't started by 
>> cron, periodic is always a good candidate.
>>
>> Btw.: there still is a dma port and its pkg-message says:
>>  
>>   And you can disable some sendmail specific daily maintenance routines in your
>>   /etc/periodic.conf file:
>>  
>>   daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
>>   daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
>>   daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
>>   daily_submit_queuerun="NO"
>
> That is a good find.  Perhaps that should be added to the FreeBSD man 
> page / docs for dma. For those following along at home, this is a good 
> way to get more involved with the FreeBSD project.
>
> I'll talk more about those below.
>
>> The last one almost looks like what you set. The man page says:
>>
>>    daily_queuerun_enable
>>        (bool)  Set to "YES" if you want	to manually run	the mail queue
>>        at least	once a day.
>>
>>    daily_submit_queuerun
>>        (bool) Set to "YES" if you also want to manually	run the	submit
>>        mail queue at least once	a day  when  daily_queuerun_enable  is
>>        set to "YES".
>>
>> So it looks like you found the parent of daily_submit_queuerun.
>> Hopefully that fixes the issue.
>
> I came to the mailing list to report upon progress.
>
> Over the past 7 days, there has been one incident. That was on a host 
> which did not have any remediation - it did not have 
> daily_queuerun_enable="NO" set.
>
> Note that the error message in question was slightly different from 
> originally reported. The timing (around 0300 UTC, which is the time 
> daily periodic scripts are run) is right.
>
> Nov 10 03:01:37 dev-pgeu dma[55d33.377910848050][79105]: could not 
> acquire queue file: No such file or directory
>
> The original was:
>
> Oct 18 03:01:00 x8dtu-pg01 dma[dma][92883]: could not pick up queue 
> file: 
> `/var/spool/dma/Q5993d.326f7fa48050'/`/var/spool/dma/M5993d.326f7fa48050': 
> No such file or directory
>
> I have since added the four directives you mention to that host and 
> I'll spread that around to other hosts as well.
>
> Thank you.

The problem has not occurred since this change.

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  Dan Langille
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