Mail Server problems

[Dave Filchak]

Actually, we roll them over every month and keep only the last 4 months
and then the older ones are discarded or archived.

Dave

Kevin Miller wrote:

>Dave Filchak wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Forgive me as this may or may not be a true MailScanner issue but I
>>would appreciate some input from the experts on this list.
>>
>>My mail server has been periodically rejecting mail with the following
>>error [logs from sending mail-relay]:
>>
>>2004-12-20 18:07:49.596345500 delivery 12914: deferral:
>>
>>
>>
>Connected_to_199.243.151.38_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_452_4
>.4.5_Insufficient_disk_space;_try_again_later/
>
>
>><snip>
>>
>>
>
>How aggressive are you rolling your log files?  I'd look in /var/log to see
>if there's not a years worth or so of old logs that have been tarred/gzipped
>and and just taking up space.  If so, I'd archive them to another partition
>or delete them and see if you can free up a few hundred megs.  Not sure
>about other distros, but SuSE seems to default to keeping logs around for a
>365 days or 99 iterations, whichever comes first (if I understand logrotate
>arightly).  If you distro is similar there's probably a lot of deadwood that
>you could prune...
>
>...Kevin
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