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From: "Gary Chrysler" <tcg@ime.net>
To: "Nadav Eiron" <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: /etc/daily, Mail queue, No Control file!
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:06:59 -0400
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Awe, I see.. Didn't think of that! I'll have to go match up the numbers.

Thanks

-Enjoy
Gary
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> From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
> To: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: /etc/daily, Mail queue, No Control file!
> Date: Monday, September 30, 1996 8:51 AM
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > mail:
> > 		Mail Queue (1 request)
> > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
> > CAA02204* (no control file)
> > 
> > Could someone please tell me how to get rid of this 'no control file' 
> > message!
> > I have searched everywhere for the culprit.
> > /var/mqueue is empty!
> > Where else is mail info maintianed!
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Enjoy
> > Gary
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours
> > The Borg... Where minds meet
> > (207) 929-3848
> > 
> > 
> 
> I have them too, and I guess they are benign. The /etc/daily is run with
> its output redirected into sendmail (so you the message you get is simply
> the output of the script). I'd bet that if you'll check your
> /var/log/maillog files you'll see that the message in question (i.e. 
> CAA02204) is simply the /etc/daily message itself. It simply starts to
get
> sent while it is still created. The warning is from the invocation of
> mailq as one of the last commands in /etc/daily, and note the asterisk 
> near the ID of the message indicating that it is locked (since it is 
> currently being sent).
> 
> Nadav
>