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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:38:53 -0400
To: jj@cybernex.net.au, security@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Daily security run - mail que content
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At 12:02 AM +1000 8/30/99, Jacob Rhoden wrote:
>For some reason... I continually get the following message
>from the crontab security email:

As others have mentioned, if you only get one line in this
check, then it is telling you about the message that it (the
check itself) is sending.  If you only see one line, ignore it.

This also bothered me, so I changed /etc/periodic/440.status-mailq
to be:

#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: 440.status-mailq,v 1.3 1998/04/17 22:53:59 des Exp $
#
if [ -x /usr/bin/mailq -a -d /var/spool/mqueue ] ; then
     echo ""
     echo "Mail in local queue:"

     if [ "`mailq|egrep -v '(1 request.|Sender/Recipient[-]*)$'|wc 
-l`" -ne 1 ] ; then
        mailq
     else
        echo "    (no mail pending in queue)"
     fi

     # If you run a busy mail server or mail relay, you may prefer
     # a shorter and better formatted message.
     #
     # mailq | perl -ne  'print if /^\s+\S+@/' |
     #         sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '$1 > 1 {print $1, $2}'
fi


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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