Orphan files in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Martin Hepworth]

Plant, Dean wrote:
> I am curious if the orphan files that I have to clear out of
> /var/spool/mqueue.in every so often is something that other people
> experience or do I have a problem that should be investigated further.
> These files build up at the rate of about 3-4 a day on each server which
> deal with about 30,000 messages a day, I have the lock type set to posix
> and I am using the standard sendmail 8.13 rpm's from CentOS 4 with
> MailScanner v4.52.2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dean
> 
> 
> 
>  
Dean

make sure you have "Lock Type = posix" in MailScanner.conf

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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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