RE: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:34 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq > > On Monday 25 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-03-03 Thread Christopher Chan
(hotshot?) Well, you came across as a 'I know everything and you must do as I say' in your response to a subthread that had turned into a joke. I mean, come on! We were discussing how to completely thrash his mail system. Even the OP got into it. Sheesh. Maybe I should have called the O

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-28 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote: > procmail, postfix local, maildrop all support maildir. qmail is not even > necessary. Or is this your excuse to do a bit of qmail bashing? Qmail bashing? Not at all. But I'm not endorsing Qmail, either, and I'm nice enough to say why... =)

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Benjamin Smith wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmm...it will still build. To really fix it, you need to do one more step: rpm -e --nodeps sendmail Now that is a permanent solution. Like a hand grenade is a "solution". Not likely to help him much, tho. =/ Doesn't e

RE: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 21:47 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > Where should we start on p

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-26 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Monday 25 February 2008, Christopher Chan wrote: > Hmm...it will still build. To really fix it, you need to do one more step: > > rpm -e --nodeps sendmail > > Now that is a permanent solution. Like a hand grenade is a "solution". Not likely to help him much, tho. =/ Doesn't even begin to add

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread Christopher Chan
/etc/init.d/sendmail stop chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail off find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -exec rm -f {} \; That'll empty out your queue and you won't have to worry about it building up again, pesky thing! Hmm...it will still build. To really fix it, you need to do one more step: rpm -e

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread nate
Jason Pyeron wrote: > Where should we start on preventing this type of problem? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mqueue]# find | wc -l > 185259 /etc/init.d/sendmail stop chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail off find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -exec rm -f {} \; That'll empty out your queue and you won't have to wo

RE: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
nday, February 25, 2008 20:20 > To: Jason Pyeron > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq > > you should start by looking at your maillog to see what's going on. > you should also check to see if you have a sendmail/postfix (whatever > your mta - i'm assuming sendmail because p

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Jason Pyeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where should we start on preventing this type of problem? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mqueue]# find | wc -l > 185259 > Short answer: We can't. Long answer: Need to know a lot more about the problem before one can even try to fix