Subject: Re: bin/37226: Failure to send mail from cron when using STARTTLS client
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/26/2007 22:04:10
On Oct 26, 2007, at 21:50, John Nemeth wrote:
> } The definition of MAILARGS in usr.sbin/cron/config.h still is:
> }
> } #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -or0s -t" /
> *-*/
>
> This is setting a bunch of timeouts to "0". I assume the
> idea is
> to not have cron hang indefinitely if there are mail problems.
> However, it probably takes a bit of time to do crypto processing.
> Try
> changing the "-or0s" to "-or1m". This should allow a considerable
> ammount of time for processing without having cron hang forever.
Yup. As you expected, this causes it to work. Even trying the
command-line test I was using with -or10s works alright for me,
on my 450Mhz sparc64.
I'd be happy if anything of the like was committed, and would
request a pull-up to netbsd-4.
Thanks!
- Chris