From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 15:42:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EF21065692 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC80E8FC08 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 15159 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2008 15:15:30 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Oct 2008 15:15:29 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id CD45428465; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:15:28 -0400 (EDT) To: Corey Dulecki References: <48EE1A9E.7020406@internationalservices.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:15:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48EE1A9E.7020406@internationalservices.com> (Corey Dulecki's message of "Thu\, 09 Oct 2008 10\:52\:14 -0400") Message-ID: <44prm9hka7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Grammas, August" Subject: Re: daily/weekly/monthly periodic output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:42:10 -0000 Corey Dulecki writes: > I have FreeBSD 6.2 running on IBM hardware, single CPU. This server > does not have sendmail enabled at all, i.e., in /etc/rc.conf, all four > of the "sendmail_xxx" enablers are set to "NO". Today, the /var > filesystem ran out of inodes. > > I tracked the issue down to files that keep appearing in > /var/spool/clientmqueue. I've researched enough to understand that > these files represent emails that cannot be sent, presumably because I > do not have a mail server running on the system. I do not want to > enable sendmail or any other client; what I want to do is have the > processes which generate these emails send their information to a log, > which I will check manually. I believe these emails are being > generated by the daily/weekly/monthly periodic processes, something > that I didn't even know existed until I ran out of inodes. > > My question is this: How can I make it so that these periodic > processes simply log their messages instead of sending emails that get > stuck in clientmqueue? Alternatively, if I can't do that, how do I > simply turn off these emails entirely so that they are not sent? Look at "man periodic.conf". The *_output variables are exactly what you want, and there are example values listed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/