From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 15:22:33 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA27513 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA27500 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29621 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:22:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13571 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:22:17 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32B72B29.733C@vailsys.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:22:17 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does sendmail fail so much References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Snob Art Genre wrote: > ...While we're on the topic, I've been getting this for months now: > > Mail Queue (1 request) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > CAA02131* (no control file) > > I've looked fairly carefully and haven't found any files on my system by > the name of CAA02131. I guess a file is not what I should be looking for. > Is this anything to be concerned about? Does the number change? If so, it's probably the control file for a message being sent by /etc/daily around the time it's composing the output report, e.g. the security run output.