[Leaplist] problem mailing kernel ooops's out ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/23/09 14:42, Phil Barnett wrote:
> On 06/22/2009 06:21 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>> .... I recently upgraded this box (2 GHz Athlon64X2) to F11 64-bit, 
>> went OK, working mostly OK except for NFS server (or something 
>> related) which is fried, causing kernel oops's nightly when I try to 
>> do my across-the-LAN backups of this machine. Sometimes in the A.M. 
>> there is a dialog box open asking me if I want to fwd the gory 
>> details to kerneloops.org, which I always do. Sometimes, however, I 
>> have a line in my messages file saying that the stuff was mailed. 
>> Trouble is, my DSL is down overnight when it tries to mail out, so 
>> what happens to those messages ? Lost in the ether ? piled up 
>> somewhere awaiting transport ? I do *ALL* of my e-mailing through 
>> Thunderbird, so I have done nothing to the default sendmail setup, 
>> anyone know what the default behavior/results would be ? TIA ....
>>
>>
> Well, let's think about that again.
>
> When you do have a network, the default version of Sendmail can 
> deliver them, so they are probably only sitting in the outbound queue 
> until sendmail can send them onward. At that time, it connects to the 
> remote mail server and delivers the mail.
>



I entered the mailq  command & it came back empty:


[root at athloncube:/etc, Tue Jun 23, 02:08 PM] 1038 # mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
                 Total requests: 0
[root at athloncube:/etc, Tue Jun 23, 03:10 PM] 1039 #


I just didn't know if it would wait until I was back online to send them 
along. For that matter, how does it know when I am back online (i.e. 
connected to the internet) ? I have a LAN w/ my modem/router connected 
through a Netgear SOHO 8-port gigabit switch w/ 5 other machines on 
there, along w/ the modem-router, does it (sendmail on my box) sit there 
& ping out occasionally to see if it can send out now ? TIA ....


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