Move the sendmail -q from cron to periodic, as suggested by a few people.

This has the benefit of adding a random start time element as daily
processing takes a different amount of time on different machines.

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/periodic/daily/500.queuerun b/etc/periodic/daily/500.queuerun
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2a8b2a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/periodic/daily/500.queuerun
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
+#
+if [ -r /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ]
+then
+    . /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
+    source_periodic_confs
+fi
+
+case "$daily_queuerun_enable" in
+    [Yy][Ee][Ss])
+	if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]
+	then
+	    echo '$daily_queuerun_enable is set but /usr/sbin/sendmail' \
+		"isn't executable"
+	    rc=2
+	elif [ ! -d /var/spool/mqueue ]
+	then
+	    echo '$daily_queuerun_enable is set but /var/spool/mqueue' \
+		"doesn't exist"
+	    rc=2
+	else
+	    /usr/sbin/sendmail -q >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+	    rc=0
+	fi;;
+
+    *)  rc=0;;
+esac
+
+exit $rc