You have checked your /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue right?
I have had a few million emails queued up there before. Charlie On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Peter Doherty wrote: > Hello, > > I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is a byproduct of > that... > I had to reboot my nagios server today, and it didn't come right back > up. By the time it did, it realized that the service checks weren't > fresh, and started sending out lots of notifications. I stopped > sendmail to keep from flooding my inbox...so here's the question: > > I just want to clear out the outgoing email queue. mailq and sendmail > -bp both show nothing queued up. When I restart sendmail, it starts > sending again. > Has nagios passed all the emails over to sendmail, and I just need to > clear out sendmail's queue, or is nagios holding onto them while > sendmail isn't running, and then once it sees sendmail running, it > starts dumping email into the queue? > > Which is it, and how do I clear them from the queue? > > Thank you. > --Peter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) > are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly > and > easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based > development > software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. > Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null