Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:54:37 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var is lack of space!! Message-ID: <20050124215437.B8180@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <16885.42093.185435.627350@jerusalem.litteratus.org>; from roberthuff@rcn.com on Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:44:13PM -0500 References: <41F4CD7F.6050308@gmail.com> <20050124071628.B3660@starfire.mn.org> <16885.6478.271432.655623@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20050124101250.A4416@starfire.mn.org> <3bbab5ce05012417097cb67c21@mail.gmail.com> <16885.42093.185435.627350@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:44:13PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > he ccj writes: > > > Thanks all of you,with your instruction,i found that it's > > /var/spool/clientmqueue use almost all of my disk space!!And i > > delete this directory,every thing is ok! > > > > But which program produce those rubish?and how can i stop that > > program? > > That would be "sendmail". Hmmmmmm. That directory contains only files which represent e-mail messages in flight. This may not be good. >From the information that I have, it is difficult to be precisely certain, but I have seen this behavior when there are e-mail messages that are too large to be delivered. So you have really big files that are taking up a bunch of room in /var - and so there is no room in /var/mail to deliver them. Sendmail keeps trying, but there's no place for them to go. So - the question is - were the undelivered messages you deleted valuable, or were they junk mails? -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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