From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 13:54:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 13:54:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8257D37B402 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBELrCC64633; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:53:12 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:53:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Strange errors in mail log Message-ID: <20001215105312.D64193@itouchnz.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gene_dinkey@hp.com on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:36:55AM -0800 Sender: jonc@itouch.co.nz Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:36:55AM -0800, DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote: > System is FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, when I check the mail for root and look at > the output from the maintenance scripts that run I get this... > > > Mail in local queue: > Mail Queue (39 requests) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > EAA10252 33 Sat Aug 12 04:33 root > (Deferred: 421 4.3.0 memory exhausted) > root > EAA14864 (no control file) [...] > > Not sure exactly what it means nor how to fix it. It's been there since I > built the system. The only things this system does is NAT routing between > @home's network and mine... The memory exhausted error is pretty strange (worrying in fact), and I haven't got a clue as to what it could be. However, if you do want to clear the stuff your get with `mailq', just remove the dead files in /var/spool/mqueue. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vini, vidi, velcro... I came, I saw, I stuck around To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message