From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 12:59:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06415 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com ([206.117.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06350 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA05727; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609302004.NAA05727@foo.primenet.com> To: bkogawa@foo.primenet.com Subject: /etc/daily, Mail queue, No Control file! From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Gary Chrysler X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Xref: nosuchsite localhost.freebsd.questions:903 >Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions >Path: nosuchsite!bkogawa >From: Nadav Eiron >Subject: Re: /etc/daily, Mail queue, No Control file! >Approved: bkogawa@localhost >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >Status: U >X-Original-Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org >To: Gary Chrysler >Sender: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan K. Ogawa) >Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch >Precedence: bulk >Message-ID: >References: <> >X-Uidl: c40c4cfc36a2792fde3b081c88ecf33a >X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Mime-Version: 1.0 >In-Reply-To: <199609301119.HAA28745@ime.net> >Cc: questions@freebsd.org >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:45:51 GMT On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > > mail: > Mail Queue (1 request) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > CAA02204* (no control file) > > Could someone please tell me how to get rid of this 'no control file' > message! > I have searched everywhere for the culprit. > /var/mqueue is empty! > Where else is mail info maintianed! > > Thanks! > > -Enjoy > Gary > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours > The Borg... Where minds meet > (207) 929-3848 > > I have them too, and I guess they are benign. The /etc/daily is run with its output redirected into sendmail (so you the message you get is simply the output of the script). I'd bet that if you'll check your /var/log/maillog files you'll see that the message in question (i.e. CAA02204) is simply the /etc/daily message itself. It simply starts to get sent while it is still created. The warning is from the invocation of mailq as one of the last commands in /etc/daily, and note the asterisk near the ID of the message indicating that it is locked (since it is currently being sent). Nadav -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/