4.54. How do I get qrunner to run under daemontools?
It is possible to run qrunner under daemontools, but you have to do a little setup. Because of the fact that mailmanctl forks, you can't use it to start and stop the qrunner processes under daemontools. The solution is to run /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner directly.
Please keep in mind that this means you won't be able to use mailmanctl to start and stop Mailman. You will need to use daemontools to manage that part of your job, and the standard solutions recommended by others may not be applicable to you if they depend on using mailmanctl for this function.
To start, create a directory called /usr/local/mailman/supervise:
mkdir /usr/local/mailman/supervise
We will need two scripts in this directory. The first should be called /usr/local/mailman/supervise/run, and should contain the following text:
#!/bin/sh exec setuidgid mailman ./qrunner
Now, create /usr/local/mailman/supervise/qrunner with the following text:
#!/bin/sh
# execute a pass through the queues once per minute
while `/bin/true`; do
# perhaps code to check for and remove locks should go here???
/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=All --once
sleep 60
doneWe should fix up the permissions on this directory now. This is not strictly necessary, but it will stop check_perms from complaining:
cd /usr/local/mailman chmod 2755 supervise chmod 755 supervise/* chown mailman:mailman supervise -R
Finally, just link /usr/local/mailman/supervise into your /service directory:
ln -s /usr/local/mailman/supervise/ /service
The qrunner process should start within 5 seconds. Use svstat to verify things are working properly.
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