On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 21:18, Terence J. Golightly wrote:
List,

Sorry about that last post too much of everything.  I'm hoping now someone can help me 
fix 
what I think is a sendmail problem. Please readon.
 
> My system keeps dumping undeliverable system mail to a folder
> /var/spool/clientmqueue.  It eventually fills up my /var partition and
> brings my pc to a crawl. I was able to write a perl script to delete the
> 'lost' mail for now, but I would like to repair it permanently.  

>I have sendmail installed on my system, but am not sure if it is configured to
> receive from the localhost or something is broken. 
                        ^ to my root account.

This must somehow be the case.  The mail was piling up in the
/var/spool/clientmqueue for some time I only really noticed it when I
made changes using Bastille.  What configuration file can I check to
help me troubleshoot whats not right.

< snip >

>I couldn't find a way to undo within Bastille so I copied the file gdm used to
> authenticate users and I was then able to login. 
> 
I did undo bastille's changes.


TIA,

Terry

System:                 Mandrake Linux 8.2 (Bluebird)
Kernel Version:         2.4.18-6mdk
Machine:                i686




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