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Re: weird problem
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Nezer Zaidenberg (DL-S)(22304) wrote:
> I have weird problem....
>
> somehow something creates 4 files per minute in /var/spool/mqueue
> this is really annoying as this takes all Inodes and after few days i cant
> even run vi.....
>
usually it's sendmail writing to the mail spool queue. chk for
sendmail running processes. if you see lots of them. kill the sendmail
process. (stopsrc -ssendmail)
chk the mails in the spool, maybe a bad sendmail.cf that cause
it to run in a loop.
> what can write in this directory and how do i kill it?
>
> this is what ls gives after cleaning the directory :
> total 795
> drwxrwx--- 2 root system 404992 Jan 18 16:02 ./
> drwxrwxr-x 13 bin bin 512 Oct 15 10:54 ../
> -rw------- 1 root system 228 Jan 18 16:02 dfQAA45568
> -rw------- 1 root system 420 Jan 18 16:02 qfQAA45568
>
> other info
> OSlevel : AIX 4.3.1
> machine : RS/6000 G40
> daemons running : normal (crond,atd,telnetd etc....) + apache 1.3.3 +
> database (Sybase 11.0.3.3)
>
> any ideas?
>
>
>
> Ciao , Cheers and C'ya
> Nezer Zaidenberg AKA scipio
>
> "work is the curse of the drinking class"
> -Oscar Wilde
>
>
--Eli
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- From: "Nezer Zaidenberg (DL-S)(22304)" <Nezer.Zaidenberg@ecitele.com>