From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 2 4:15:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ucs.co.za (ucs.co.za [196.23.43.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793A337B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vuk@ucs.co.za) Received: from ucspost.ucs.co.za (IDENT:root@mailgw1.ucs.co.za [196.23.43.254]) by ucs.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f62BFEQ07901 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:15:14 +0200 Received: from jhb.ucs.co.za (IDENT:root@jhb.ucs.co.za [172.31.1.73]) by ucspost.ucs.co.za (8.9.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21043 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:15:14 +0200 From: vuk@ucs.co.za Received: from vuk.ucs.co.za (vuk.ucs.co.za [172.31.1.154]) by jhb.ucs.co.za (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA01280 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:17:41 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.4 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010701154733.I296@blossom.cjclark.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:18:04 +0200 (SAST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail & /var Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, VERY new to FreeBSD. And this is quite a newbie question..... I keep on getting these in /var/log/messages: Jul 2 10:29:17 grock sendmail[15373]: f628THB15373: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dff628THB15373 (bfcommit, uid=0): No such file or directory Jul 2 10:29:18 grock sendmail[15374]: f628TIB15374: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dff628TIB15374 (bfcommit, uid=0): No such file or directory Jul 2 11:24:15 grock sendmail[15486]: f629OFB15486: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dff629OFB15486 (bfcommit, uid=0): No such file or directory Jul 2 11:24:15 grock sendmail[15487]: f629OFB15487: SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot write ./dff629OFB15487 (bfcommit, uid=0): No such file or directory I think the problem is /var/spool/mqueue, so i checked the permissions(copied these from a linux box): grock:/var/spool/mqueue# ls -latr total 4 drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Jun 27 17:39 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Jul 2 03:08 . i tried making it all 777, root.wheel and other stupid things. Hmmm....maybe that's not the problem directory. What else should i look at? (possible) problem origin: A while ago, i had a problem where my /var was 108% full. So, I decided to shuffle things around, and moved my /var/spool/mqueue to /usr/var.... and made a link to /var. That didn't free up any space, so i moved a whole bunch of stuff over to /usr. Nope, didnt' help. So i just rebooted, and var came down to 1%. So that probably means it's some kind of virtual fs/ramdrive or something? Where can i read up some more about that, as i see that /var is growing again.... Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 1984478 55474 1770246 3% / /dev/ad0s1h 25387406 16237624 7118790 70% /home /dev/ad0s1e 496094 646 455762 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 9923450 2619084 6510490 29% /usr /dev/ad0s1f 496094 29414 426994 6% /var /dev/ad1s1 39246312 23862024 13390632 64% /backup procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc Anyway, i think the sendmail problem came with the shuffling of the directories. Can someone please point me in the right direction? TIA -- byeeeee Vuk I am Homer of Borg. Prepare to be --- Oooh! Donuts! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message