Re: dma: could not pick up queue file

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.

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  Dan Langille
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