Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 09:00:45 PST From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why does sendmail fail so much Message-ID: <Chameleon.850928491.List@journeyman.pinpt.com> References: <32B7B8AB.6EF8@barcode.co.il>
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Thanks, you are right from my end. I let the system sit, and then asked sendmail for the Q info, and the file was gone. It is the daily doing it. -Sean --- On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:26:03 +0200 Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> wrote: > Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote: > > > > > I notice since I switched back to sendmail, that I get a lot more failed > > > messages than I used to with smail? things like the following; > > > > While we're on the topic, I've been getting this for months now: > > > > Mail Queue (1 request) > > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > > CAA02131* (no control file) > > > > I've looked fairly carefully and haven't found any files on my system by > > the name of CAA02131. I guess a file is not what I should be looking for. > > Is this anything to be concerned about? > > Did you get those in the output from /etc/daily? If so, then they're > harmless. This is the result of /etc/daily executing mailq while its > output is being piped into sendmail, catching sendmail in the middle of > constructing the message control file. I haven't seen it in other > situations, but I guess it would be all the same if you catch the queue > while a message is being written to it. If it goes awat after a few > seconds I'd say there's nothing to worry about. > > > > > > ta > > > bob > > > -- > > > Reality. re al 'i ty. Something for those with no imagination. > > > robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au > > > Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. > > > > > > > Ben > > > > The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation > > Board of Queensland, Australia. > Nadav > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz <schluntz@pinpt.com> Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 12/18/96 09:00:46 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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