Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:57:16 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> Cc: Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full Message-ID: <20000217105716.F27835@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com> References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:37:51PM -0500, Jim Weeks wrote:
> Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> > Kill sendmail, create multiple queue directories, move files
> > arbitrarily so you don't have too many msgs in any one queue,
> > run multiple sendmail processes to drain the alternative q's
> > "sendmail -q30m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.1"
> >
> > It's well worth your while installing Postfix, Exim and Qmail
> > on a test machine and see if you feel happier with any of them.
> > In most situations, they're better able to handle heavy mail
> > load than Sendmail.
> Why not
> kill sendmail
> cd /var
> mv -Rp /var/mail /usr/mail
> ln -s /usr/mail mail
> restarts sendmail
Copy 9 gigs of mail to the /usr filesystem? I don't get it.
The exercise would certainly take my mind of my troubles.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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