From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 18:10:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11777 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA29288; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:57 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA07242; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:33 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981008103932.A7181@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Buss , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: No disk space (was: A big UNIX server problem) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Christopher Buss on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 04:06:06PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 16:06:06 -0500, Christopher Buss wrote: > Hi! I am administrating the mail server at our school and we have > been recieving some problems as of late that I had hoped you could > shed some light on. Our server runs freeBSD and is giving us errors > that say: > > mail sendmail[113]: [NOQUEUE]: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 5 in /var/spool/mqueue) > > We have tried to delete various temp files in the mqueue directory > as well as many user directories, but the message still keeps coming > and no one can send mail. Please help! This is a basic system administration problem. Your /var file system is full. You must remove some files. I'd suggest a good book on system administration, such as Nemeth and Co. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message