From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 2:15: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluton.ispras.ru (pluton.ispras.ru [194.186.94.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FF637BDEA for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:14:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grn@ispras.ru) Received: from gate.ispras.ru (gate [194.67.37.200]) by pluton.ispras.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05059; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:12:14 +0400 (MSK) Received: from ispgate (ispgate [194.67.37.200]) by gate.ispras.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00418; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:13:24 +0400 (MSK) Message-Id: <200004200913.NAA00418@gate.ispras.ru> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:13:24 +0400 (MSK) From: Kluchnikov Grigory Reply-To: Kluchnikov Grigory Subject: Re: sendmail is complaining that mqueue doesn't exist To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, thingsarebroken@yahoo.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: N24VGdwUodyJodmmseX84g== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.0 CDE Version 1.2 SunOS 5.6 sun4m sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I tried to do same things on my host and tried to send mail. It works OK! Try to see permissions on your new mqueue dir and to check that symlink to it is correct. Grigory. > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:06:08 -0400 (EDT) > From: Dan Lazin > Subject: sendmail is complaining that mqueue doesn't exist > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > I did a dumb thing: I ran out of space on /var because > of a large message sitting in /var/spool/mqueue, so I > moved the contents of that directory over to > /usr/mqueue, and symlinked /var/spool/mqueue over to > that location. Then sendmail started complaining every > time I tried to send a message. It says '451 > queuename: Cannot create "qfBAA00619" in > "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): No such file or > directory' > > Fine. So I deleted my symlink and built a new, empty > regular directory at /var/spool/mqueue. Same error. I > can't send mail, and it's making me sad. The mailq > command works, however (now that I've moved the queued > messages back into /var/spool/mqueue). > > ls -l in /var/spool/ gives: > ... > drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Apr 20 02:02 mqueue > ... > > So why is it saying that mqueue doesn't exist? It > still has a bunch of queued messages in it, and mailq > finds them, so what's the problem? > > I don't like having to use this yahoo account while my > server is broken. Please help. > > Dan Lazin > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Best regards, Grigory Klyuchnikov ------------------------------------------------------------ Institute for System Programming Russian Academy of Sciences, 109004, Moscow, Russia, B.Kommunistitcheskay, 25, phone(work): +7-095-9125659 fax: +7-095-9121524 e-mail: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message