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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:58:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      bill <billt@what.ifelse.org>
To:        John Indra <john@naver.co.id>
Cc:        "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sendmail.st
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101110647410.3804-100000@zaius.poa.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010111161125.D2776@naver.co.id>

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, John Indra wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, John Bolster wrote:
>
> >In /var/log I have a bunch of sendmail.st files which are unreadable. When I
> >try and display them I get the kind of text display you get from trying to
> >read a compiled binary. All my other log files are fine- just this is wierd.
> >Any ideas what could be causing this?
>
> /var/log/sendmail.st is a binary file.
> Just delete it IF you don't need it. Delete corresponding entry from
> /etc/newsyslog.conf too.
>
> Never knew what /var/log/sendmail.st for. Never used sendmail before. Anyone
> care to explain?

I believe it is where sendmail writes its statistics. The command
'mailstats' will view it. It is a binary file and should not grow in size,
so it doesn't need to be automatically rotated.





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