Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:28:53 +0400 From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> To: <vuk@ucs.co.za> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail & /var Message-ID: <005801c102e1$cbf7db00$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <XFMail.20010702191804.vuk@ucs.co.za>
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----- Original Message ----- From: <vuk@ucs.co.za> Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:16 PM Subject: Sendmail & /var > I think the problem is /var/spool/mqueue, so i checked the > permissions(copied these from a linux box): > > grock:/var/spool/mqueue# ls -latr > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Jun 27 17:39 .. > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Jul 2 03:08 . > > i tried making it all 777, root.wheel and other stupid things. Hmmm....maybe > that's not the problem directory. What else should i look at? > There shoudln't be any problems with permissions, because sendmail is run with root provileges. > > (possible) problem origin: > > A while ago, i had a problem where my /var was 108% full. So, I decided to > shuffle things around, and moved my /var/spool/mqueue to /usr/var.... > and made a link to /var. That didn't free up any space, so i moved a whole > bunch of stuff over to /usr. > Nope, didnt' help. So i just rebooted, and var came down to 1%. Some process opened some file in /var file system and until it release a descriptor for that opened file, you aren't able to free disk space of opened file. > So that probably means it's some kind of virtual fs/ramdrive or something? > Where can i read up some more about that, as i see that /var is growing > again.... > > Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 1984478 55474 1770246 3% / > /dev/ad0s1h 25387406 16237624 7118790 70% /home > /dev/ad0s1e 496094 646 455762 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1g 9923450 2619084 6510490 29% /usr > /dev/ad0s1f 496094 29414 426994 6% /var > /dev/ad1s1 39246312 23862024 13390632 64% /backup > procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc > Probably some process sends to much log information to some log file, check /var/log directory. > Anyway, i think the sendmail problem came with the shuffling of the directories. > Can someone please point me in the right direction? Tell us exact directories structure you did, when you created /usr/spool/mqueue as a link to another directory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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