Getting a *lot* of these
Michael St. Laurent
mikes at HARTWELLCORP.COM
Wed Mar 3 20:03:23 GMT 2004
Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>>> What about cleaning out your incomming queue :) Thats where it
>>> starts.
>>
>> I *am* cleaning it out. Each night I'm removing any file more than
>> one day old. However, my log files are still getting bloated.
>
> How are these bad files being generated? I very rarely see this
> problem. I would definitely advise you to investigate the cause
> rather than just killing the symptom.
Julian,
My /var/log/maillog file now has almost 8 million lines in it. I don't have
the luxury of trying to find out what is generating the files under these
conditions. I've commented out the line in Sendmail.pm that makes the log
entries for now.
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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation
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