topic Re: Send mail problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Send mail problem

Achilles_2 — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:03:53 GMT

Hi all,

I have encountered the following problem recently, but I don't use it to send and receive mail:

myServer above message repeats 79 times
myServer sendmail[820]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 91, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in
/var/spool/mqueue)
myServer sendmail[820]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 21, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in
/var/spool/mqueue)

How come often this message pop up?

Regards and thanks a lot!
Alex

Re: Send mail problem

Karthik S S — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:05:12 GMT

May be /var is running out of space. post bdf output.

-Karthik S S

Re: Send mail problem

Hoefnix — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:08:09 GMT

Hi,
If you have no space problem in /var check the properties of the /var/spool/mqueue
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 57344 Mar 9 09:06 mqueue

HTH,
Peter

Re: Send mail problem

T G Manikandan — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:08:37 GMT

check /var and /tmp file system.
check whether the file systems have space.

Re: Send mail problem

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:08:47 GMT

Hi Alex,

Your /var filesystem is running out of space.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=45441

Re: Send mail problem

Vijaya Kumar_3 — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:09:57 GMT

Use this command to check whether you are running sendmail or not.

ps -ef | grep sendmail

If you have sendmail running, stop the sendmail server.

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

Also, disable sendmail from starting after a reboot

mv /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail /sbin/rc2.d/s540sendmail

Hope this helps
Vijay

Re: Send mail problem

Hoefnix — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:57:59 GMT

Hi,

check also /var/mail properties:
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 96 Mar 7 04:30 mail

If not correct:
chown bin:mail /var/mail
chmod 775 /var/mail

Regards,
Peter

Re: Send mail problem

Shaikh Imran — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 05:50:39 GMT

Hi,
don't get into the problem if you are not using the sendmail.Just Disable it using
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

Regards,

Re: Send mail problem

jason morgan_3 — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:10:52 GMT

If it does indeed turn out to be a space issue, you might want to setup a script that checks for logs and or mail files and zeros them out every so often using cron
-Jason
===Script Begin===

#!/usr/bin/sh
for i in `ls -1 /var/mail`
do
> /var/mail/$i
done
> /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
exit