From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 10:16:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megared.net.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D77914BE3 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA96126; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:16:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <014e01beed8b$1ddccfc0$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Doug Young" , References: <011701beed17$efdafed0$817e03cb@2000> Subject: RE: Sendmail Stuff Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:15:36 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, What are te mail messages that are filling your disk???, maybe you should see them, because it could be something wrong with your system, you may see the mesages in the /var/spool/mqueue directory with the "mailq" command, also there is a section in the sendmail.cf file where you can tell him how much disk space it will have to write mesages in the mail queue: # minimum number of free blocks on filesystem O MinFreeBlocks=125000 With the default blocks of 8k, I have 2GB slice for /var, then I have 1GB configured for my mail queue, for restricting sendmail of filling my disk. If you dont see any important information in the queue, just "cd /var/spool/mqueue", and "rm *". I hope this can help you... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Young To: Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:31 PM Subject: Sendmail Stuff > How does one disable sendmail o it doesn't keep filling the hard drive up > with useless messages I never asked for ..... when I install FreeBSD from > CD. > it just seems to install sendmail automatically, then after a day or so I > get messages > telling me I'm running out of space in /var/spool ...... but dunno how to > get in there > to delete stuff > > > > 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