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[Sam Lalonde <address@concealed>]

Further to the email below...

I can see that if I add:

distribution_mode   fork

to my sympa.conf, then when I start sympa it starts 2 sympa.pl processes 
instead of one.   I assume one is for processing commands and one for 
messages, but how can I tell them apart? Do I need to pass variables to 
them before they start?  How do I do this?

If I know which is which, can I just get cron to kill one at a certain 
time then start one later on, or is there a "cleaner" way to do it?  Has 
anyone written scripts for this?

I am running Sympa 5.0b.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3.  I start 
sympa with /etc/init.d/sympa start.

The reason I am asking this is that our email servers are VERY busy 
during the day and we would only like messages to be distributed during 
slow times.  Some of our lists are +20,000 people.

sam


Sam Lalonde wrote:

> Does anyone have any information about how to process commands 
> anytime, but only distribute emails at certain times?
>
> sam