From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 01:28:51 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA25780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA25773 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA08750; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:27:51 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma008748; Wed Dec 18 11:27:45 1996 Message-ID: <32B7B8AB.6EF8@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:26:03 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Snob Art Genre CC: Robert Chalmers , bsd 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: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote: > > > I notice since I switched back to sendmail, that I get a lot more failed > > messages than I used to with smail? things like the following; > > 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? Did you get those in the output from /etc/daily? If so, then they're harmless. This is the result of /etc/daily executing mailq while its output is being piped into sendmail, catching sendmail in the middle of constructing the message control file. I haven't seen it in other situations, but I guess it would be all the same if you catch the queue while a message is being written to it. If it goes awat after a few seconds I'd say there's nothing to worry about. > > > ta > > bob > > -- > > Reality. re al 'i ty. Something for those with no imagination. > > robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au > > Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. > > > > Ben > > The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation > Board of Queensland, Australia. Nadav