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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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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
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