From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 15:06:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6272B106569F for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corey@internationalservices.com) Received: from whasmtp-tariff.pas.sa.earthlink.net (whasmtp-tariff.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.120.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479838FC22 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corey@internationalservices.com) Received: from [74.160.71.119] (helo=[192.168.10.100]) by whasmtp-tariff.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KnwsI-0005xG-NX; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:52:22 -0700 Message-ID: <48EE1A9E.7020406@internationalservices.com> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:52:14 -0400 From: Corey Dulecki User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org, "Grammas, August" X-ELNK-Trace: 668de43e3ffcab26ea4cdd44811d7ce750327050245a32664b0a5869f9765cf8eb87e515456361fbe09687dd9d4799b1350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 74.160.71.119 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: daily/weekly/monthly periodic output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:06:45 -0000 I have FreeBSD 6.2 running on IBM hardware, single CPU. This server does not have sendmail enabled at all, i.e., in /etc/rc.conf, all four of the "sendmail_xxx" enablers are set to "NO". Today, the /var filesystem ran out of inodes. I tracked the issue down to files that keep appearing in /var/spool/clientmqueue. I've researched enough to understand that these files represent emails that cannot be sent, presumably because I do not have a mail server running on the system. I do not want to enable sendmail or any other client; what I want to do is have the processes which generate these emails send their information to a log, which I will check manually. I believe these emails are being generated by the daily/weekly/monthly periodic processes, something that I didn't even know existed until I ran out of inodes. My question is this: How can I make it so that these periodic processes simply log their messages instead of sending emails that get stuck in clientmqueue? Alternatively, if I can't do that, how do I simply turn off these emails entirely so that they are not sent? -- / /*/Corey Dulecki Vice President of Product Development /**@**In**ternationalServices **office*: 770.414.6000 /ext/ 707 *web*:www.InternationalServices.com ___________________________________________________________ This mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this email. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this email is strictly forbidden. ___________________________________________________________