From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 09:08:57 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA15977 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:08:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA15943 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman.pinpt.com (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA18908; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:08:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 09:00:45 PST From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: why does sendmail fail so much To: Nadav Eiron Cc: bsd X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <32B7B8AB.6EF8@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks, you are right from my end. I let the system sit, and then asked sendmail for the Q info, and the file was gone. It is the daily doing it. -Sean --- On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:26:03 +0200 Nadav Eiron wrote: > 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 > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 12/18/96 09:00:46 ----------------------------------------------------------------------