From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 16 16: 5:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CD137B5ED for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (mail0.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.12]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BBE132F4 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from siteplus.com (host-209-215-8-150.cha.bellsouth.net [209.215.8.150]) by mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id TAA19099; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:04:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38AB3B61.71445D2@siteplus.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:05:53 -0500 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i486) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson , aunty , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It occurred to me after I sent this that I have missed the whole point. I have to ask myself why is all this mail stuck in the queue. I assume that at this point you have cd'd to /var and done something like du -k > some.file and looked at some.file to see which ones are giving you the problem. You still should be able to out link the offending directory. Jim Weeks wrote: > Why not > kill sendmail > cd /var > mv -Rp /var/mail /usr/mail > ln -s /usr/mail mail > restarts sendmail > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message