From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 15: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richardson.apana.org.au (richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC21014FF5 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from young@richardson.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy [203.3.126.133] by richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.T) for ; Mon, 06 Sep 1999 06:27:05 +1000 Message-ID: <02b101bef7dd$aff73740$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Young" To: "John" Cc: Subject: Re: mail queue filled Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 06:31:50 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: young@richardson.apana.org.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I first installed FreeBSD thats exactly what happened to me ... disabled sendmail completely til someone figures out how to fix it -----Original Message----- From: John To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:52 AM Subject: mail queue filled >Hey all - > >I got hit with a problem last night that i'm not sure how to troubleshoot >(mainly since I'm still learning). > >Around 2AM, cron kicked in /etc/periodic/daily. Everything was going fine, >so I hit the hay. This morning, I wake up to find out that the daily >scripts had generated a 400+ MB email file in /var/spool/mqueue, >successfully filling up my /var FS. How do i go about figuring out what >went wrong? I know it's a general question, but I'm just not sure where to >start on this :) > >Thanks!!! >--John > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message