On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:44, Paul Howarth wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:30, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > Yep. Still there. file lists it as data. Here's the output: > > > > [root@marius clientmqueue]# ls -l > > total 2099200 > > -rw-rw---- 1 markh smmsp 2147483647 Sep 20 17:07 dfi8KL00F0004975 > > [root@marius clientmqueue]# file * > > dfi8KL00F0004975: data > > That's not 2MB, it's 2GB! It's not surprising that that mail couldn't be > delivered. > > How about ps uaxww | grep mail? > > The file is owned by you so it's one of your processes that's generating it. > Do you have any cron jobs set up that might generate large volumes of output? > > Paul. Damn. I wondered what was going on. The only cron job I run on this machine is setiathome. I ran it on the old install on this machine and didn't have any problems. Here's the output of ps: [markh@marius markh]$ ps uaxww | grep mail root 2382 0.0 0.5 7656 2796 ? S 07:41 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 2391 0.0 0.4 7708 2372 ? S 07:41 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue markh 3778 0.0 0.1 5056 588 pts/0 R 08:48 0:00 grep mail -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 08:49:06 up 1:09, 2 users, load average: 1.29, 1.53, 1.41
