[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Wed Sep 10 13:27:07 EDT 2014


Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-09-10, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Simon Clubley wrote 2014-09-10 14:01:
>>> What I've setup the backup procedures to do every night is to
>>> have the command procedure dump the queues, entries, and other
>>> details to text files which then get backed up as part of the
>>> backup routine.
>>>
>>> This gives me a reasonably up to date view of the queue configuration
>>> in human readable format which can be used to recreate the configuration
>>> if the queue manager database is corrupted for some reason.
>>>
>> Nice, of course. But do you also expect your queues to
>> be empty (even non-existant) simply becuse a reboot?
>> That was the question here.
>>
> 
> I was thinking more of David's original comment about defining the
> queues in case of the risk of queue corruption. My approach is a
> different way of tackling the same concern which doesn't have an
> impact on the existing queues _and_ also records other information.
> 
> And no, I don't expect the queues to be empty because of a reboot
> (unless, possibly, that reboot comes about because of a power
> failure at just the wrong time or hardware failure. :-))
> 
>> And anyway, all our queue definitions are in the startup
>> sequence and everything *would* be created from scratch
>> if they should disapear for some reason.
>>
> 
> Do you also define the forms and queue characteristics at startup ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

I will change my objection to those who manually configure queues, and 
do not have command files to set up the queues if they become lost or 
corrupt.  Ok?



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