From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 4: 4:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from what.ifelse.org (what.ifelse.org [208.171.40.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AE037B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from d44.interaccess.net (d44.interaccess.net [216.85.64.44]) by what.ifelse.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id GAA31443; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:54:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:58:57 -0500 (EST) From: bill X-X-Sender: To: John Indra Cc: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" Subject: Re: sendmail.st In-Reply-To: <20010111161125.D2776@naver.co.id> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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