From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 10:47:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E5614BDA for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine.avalon.com (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA09109; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990905130620.0093a2d0@unix01.voicenet.com> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 13:08:24 -0400 To: kwoody@citytel.net From: John Subject: Re: mail queue filled Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990905114754.0093a9c0@unix01.voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not quite sure - when I went into /var/spool/mqueue, there was a file there, but I couldn't edit it, head it, tail it, or cat it. The file name started with "db", but all file names in that directory seem (at least to me) to be either random or coded. --John >Who was all the mail to? > >On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, John wrote: > >>>Hey all - >>> >>>I got hit with a problem last night that i'm not sure how to troubleshoot >>>(mainly since I'm still learning). >>> >>>Around 2AM, cron kicked in /etc/periodic/daily. Everything was going fine, >>>so I hit the hay. This morning, I wake up to find out that the daily >>>scripts had generated a 400+ MB email file in /var/spool/mqueue, >>>successfully filling up my /var FS. How do i go about figuring out what >>>went wrong? I know it's a general question, but I'm just not sure where to >>>start on this :) >>> >>>Thanks!!! >>>--John >>> >>> >>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message