tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I made a monitor from my machine (CentOS 4.5) to do an http to a machine > retrieve some info to see if a process is running (on this remote machine I have > a task running so it is easy to get the info from my machine). > > If I cannot access the remote machine, my machine sends mail to me and a couple > other people saying the machine is unreachable. My cronjob runs every 5 minutes. > Juts occured to me now though that if our network goes down, my machine will be > sending mail every 5 minutes saying the machine is unreachable. These messages > will get stored on my machine and all get sent when it comes up. > I am wondering whether someone knows how to cancel mail that is queued on a machine, so it > doesn't all get sent out. I do have root access. which mailserver are you running? sendmail: a combination of sendmail -bp and rm seems to work: http://www.cwinters.com/news/display/?news_id=1000 http://www.freebsddiary.org/mailqueue.php postfix: man postsuper google++ :) alternatively you could change the cron script to only attempt connections to the remote machine IF your local network is up... Stuart
