Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:31:34 +1100 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: info@netarmor.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail panic Message-ID: <200201210231.NAA18618@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Michael C. Beeler" <info@netarmor.net> of "Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:00:08 -0800." <E16SThv-0007Tq-00@hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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info@netarmor.net said: > I've deleted all of the files in /var/spool/mqueue but the queue keeps > building up again. Does any one know what the problem is. This > seems to have begun after /var file system filled up. I expect that you've only given half the story (which I'm not saying is intentional). Sendmail doesn't pull things out of thin air, so if the queue keeps building up then either you have a LOT of e-mail going through, or something is seriously broken. In either case, it's all in syslog. The messages you have included are both saying the same thing: /var is full. Sendmail doesn't like /var filling up at all, since pretty much everything it needs to do is on /var: /var/spool/mqueue sendmail working/queue directory /var/log logging (via syslog) /var/mail user mail drops /var/tmp usual "drop of last resort" /var/run sendmail "pid" file So what do you do? 1. Stop sendmail. 2. Clear up as much space as you can on /var. 3. Run mailq to see what's actually there. 4. Try running "sendmail -qI<id>" (refer to the man page) a few times to try to get rid of a few messages at a time. 5. Look at the mail queue each time to check what happened. If things are going back into the queue, you probably have something else to fix. 6. Once everything is cleaned up, start sendmail again. You may then like to look at where all your disk space is allocated, and maybe reconfigure sendmail to use different locations where there is "room to move". Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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