Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:39:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christopher Buss <SS123285@sti.tec.sd.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: No disk space (was: A big UNIX server problem) Message-ID: <19981008103932.A7181@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <s61b9185.050@sti.tec.sd.us>; from Christopher Buss on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 04:06:06PM -0500 References: <s61b9185.050@sti.tec.sd.us>
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[Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 16:06:06 -0500, Christopher Buss wrote: > Hi! I am administrating the mail server at our school and we have > been recieving some problems as of late that I had hoped you could > shed some light on. Our server runs freeBSD and is giving us errors > that say: > > mail sendmail[113]: [NOQUEUE]: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 5 in /var/spool/mqueue) > > We have tried to delete various temp files in the mqueue directory > as well as many user directories, but the message still keeps coming > and no one can send mail. Please help! This is a basic system administration problem. Your /var file system is full. You must remove some files. I'd suggest a good book on system administration, such as Nemeth and Co. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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