Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:58:57 -0500 (EST) From: bill <billt@what.ifelse.org> To: John Indra <john@naver.co.id> Cc: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail.st Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101110647410.3804-100000@zaius.poa.net> In-Reply-To: <20010111161125.D2776@naver.co.id>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, John Indra wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, John Bolster wrote: > > >In /var/log I have a bunch of sendmail.st files which are unreadable. When I > >try and display them I get the kind of text display you get from trying to > >read a compiled binary. All my other log files are fine- just this is wierd. > >Any ideas what could be causing this? > > /var/log/sendmail.st is a binary file. > Just delete it IF you don't need it. Delete corresponding entry from > /etc/newsyslog.conf too. > > Never knew what /var/log/sendmail.st for. Never used sendmail before. Anyone > care to explain? I believe it is where sendmail writes its statistics. The command 'mailstats' will view it. It is a binary file and should not grow in size, so it doesn't need to be automatically rotated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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