Re: Metro MHSnet down

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From: Dave Davey
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 05:56

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In <rossc.705659410@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> rossc@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Ross Cartlidge) writes:

>rossc@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Ross Cartlidge) writes:

->This meant that extro was running but the MHS stuff was not there
->at all. I noticed this on Sunday, but didn't bring metro down
->as I didn't want to lose non MHSnet services - which were working fine.

->Unfortunately there was a flaw in this - sendmail fails badly
->when the mailer it calls doesn't exist. This caused mail to get
->bounced that was directed to MHS sites. When I was notified of this
->problem (Thanks to Jim Richardson) I stopped sendmail to stop
->mail from being accepted.

->I have disabled auto-booting to solve this problem in the future -

This is a little extreme is it not?  Why not include some contingency tests
in your boot time startup code and only start sendmail if those tests are
satisfactory?  The existance of the MHS program that your sendmail invokes
would be a good one to deal with the above problem.

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