From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 03:54:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A634316A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:54:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A501543D41 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:54:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j0P3sbG08249; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:54:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:54:37 -0600 From: John To: Robert Huff Message-ID: <20050124215437.B8180@starfire.mn.org> References: <41F4CD7F.6050308@gmail.com> <20050124071628.B3660@starfire.mn.org> <16885.6478.271432.655623@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20050124101250.A4416@starfire.mn.org> <3bbab5ce05012417097cb67c21@mail.gmail.com> <16885.42093.185435.627350@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <16885.42093.185435.627350@jerusalem.litteratus.org>; from roberthuff@rcn.com on Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:44:13PM -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var is lack of space!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:54:41 -0000 On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:44:13PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > he ccj writes: > > > Thanks all of you,with your instruction,i found that it's > > /var/spool/clientmqueue use almost all of my disk space!!And i > > delete this directory,every thing is ok! > > > > But which program produce those rubish?and how can i stop that > > program? > > That would be "sendmail". Hmmmmmm. That directory contains only files which represent e-mail messages in flight. This may not be good. >From the information that I have, it is difficult to be precisely certain, but I have seen this behavior when there are e-mail messages that are too large to be delivered. So you have really big files that are taking up a bunch of room in /var - and so there is no room in /var/mail to deliver them. Sendmail keeps trying, but there's no place for them to go. So - the question is - were the undelivered messages you deleted valuable, or were they junk mails? -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG