RE: Please Help Fast! /VAR is Full !

From: Andreas Freyvogel (afreyvogel_at_ecmarket.com)
Date: 10/29/03

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:19:04 -0800

    I would stop sendmail, copy the folder to a location on your disk that you
    have the room for it, delete the current folder and create a symbolic link
    to the new location. Restart sendmail.

    -Andreas

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    [mailto:redhat-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Craig Daters
    Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:09 AM
    To: redhat-list@redhat.com
    Subject: Re: Please Help Fast! /VAR is Full !

    You can as you say, 'rm *' to get rid of everything, but you might lose some
    ligitamate email if you did. Can you move the files elsewhere? For the time
    being? If you're not worried as you say, then go for it.

    You may be able to edit the cron config file to turn off the automatic email
    but am unsure... Like change 'MAILTO=root' to 'MAILTO=/dev/null' or
    something like that, but I would only do this as an extreme temporary
    measure.

    On 10/29/03 10:47 AM, "Staven Bruce" <Staven.Bruce@valleyair.org> spoke
    thusly:

    >
    > I am running Red Hat 7.3 and I came in this morning and found /var was at
    > 100%. A quick 'du /var' showed that my /var/spool/mqueue directory as at
    > 145MB ! Usually my /var directory is at 46% on my machine, and I believe
    > that this is all the result of a cron job I started yesterday that runs
    > hourly.
    >
    > I really need to find out how I can clear the mqueue. The device is full
    > according to the system, so I can't use 'sendmail -q'. I don't care if I
    > loose all the messages in the que, they don't contain anything important
    and
    > there are no other users on the machine besides myself. Can I 'rm * ' all
    > the files in /var/spool/mqueue? I just need to get them out of there!
    >
    > Also, if someone can tell me how to turn off the automatic e-mail from
    cron
    > I would appreciate it!
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Staven
    >
    >

    Craig D. 

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