On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote about, Sending Mail:
> This is my first time sending to this list. Ryan isn't available right now
> to help.
>
> Before you have decipher it, let me just say that I barely know what the
> heck I'm about. Really. Ryan has this all set up for me and I pretty much
> leave it up to him. But I do want to learn more. Anyway, I throw myself at
> your mercy... And now on with the question...
>
> My mailserver is no longer processing mail requests. I checked my Linux
> Admin for Dummies book and it suggested I telnet into the sendmail daemon
> (did I say that right?) and I get this:
>
> [root@tamas dbentson]# telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> I did the only thing I knew how to do which was to reboot the server to see
> if sendmail would wake up a bit. After I did a reboot, I telneted to the
> linuxbox, su to root, and opened pine to compose a message to myself. When I
> go to send, I get a message that says"
> [Mail not sent. Sending error: 452 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Insuf]
>
> I went to my user account (rather than root) and tried to compose a message
> there in Pine and got this as soon as I go to compose:
> [Checkpoint file failure: No space left on device]
It means what you suspect, no space left to write to on the device, use the
command 'df' Disk Free. That will show you which partition is full.
You will need to move some files around or delete them to make some space
before sendmail will work again.
I cant tell you what to delete, common sense will tell you. After deleting
the files and or directorys you will need to restart sendmail do the
following;
killall sendmal
sendmail -de -q15m
Now you should have a working mail system again, o yes you will relaise to
delete files you will possably need to be root, to start sendmail as well i
would imagen.
Question 1 Who the hell is Ryan. ?
2) Why the heck reboot, there is nearly NEVER any reason to reboot.
> I thought that maybe I had a drive that was too full and there were problems
> there. But I don't know how to check the space left on the drive. Or which
> drive to check - there are multiple hard drives on this machine. I did mount
> and got this:
> /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext2 (rw,nosuid,usrquota)
> /dev/hdd on /home/ftp type ext2 (rw,nosuid)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
>
> I know I'm too wordy, but I wanted to be as complete as possible when
> looking for some free advice. Thanks for any who reply!
No not really, maybe a little vauge about Ryan, anyway its beter to say too
much than too little, it helps to localise the problem.
Anyway regards to you and Ryan.
--
Regards Richard
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http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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