Brian Moon wrote:
> stopped getting mail.  I checked the syslog and nothing had been entered for
> a while.  I noticed that it was enormous and that it had filled up the
> partition.  I deleted the whole thing.  Qmail did not start delivering.  I
> restarted qmail.  It never restarted.  I run 'rc &' and get 'Exit 111    rc
> &'.  Any ideas?

You need to restart the syslogd. Rm'ing the file without restarting the 
syslog proccess means you'll still have the fileahdnle open to that large
syslog file.

Hope that fixes it,

Regards,

Dave.

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smoking end them?".

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