topic Re: clientmqueue in red hat in Operating System - Linux

clientmqueue in red hat

R.O. — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:20:50 GMT

Hi,

I have in a red hat box, the sendmail stopped:

# service sendmail status
sendmail estÃ¡ parado

but there is a directory (/var/spool/clientmqueue) full of files. How can avoid the creation of these files and why they are been created?

Regards,

R.O

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

Vernon Brown_4 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:34:51 GMT

clientmqueue is where mail is stored when users are on vacation and can't check their mail. My guess is that there is too much spam aimed at someone who isn't checking their email. You may have to manually purge your mqueue files to get rid of the queue'd up spam.

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

R.O. — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:51:41 GMT

But in this system there is no mail service; and sendmail is not running.

Regards,

R.O

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

R.O. — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:59:46 GMT

I can see:

4 D smmsp 5020 1 0 84 0 - 1605 end 13:55 ? 00:00:00 send-mail -i root

4 D smmsp 5020 1 0 84 0 - 1605 end 13:55 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: ./j1SCt9Ha00
5020 [127.0.0.1]: user open

How is possible that sendmail has running processes, if it is not running?

Regards,

R.O

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

K.C. Chan — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:58:16 GMT

R.O,
I had asked similar question, here's the url:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=43966

It has something to do with how sendmail configs have changed. It seems there are two part of it; the server and client part. I am not sure how all this fits together. As of now, I have not yet figured out how to get sendmail to send email w/o having to start up sendmail services. AFAIK, this configuration starts with rh8 and upward.

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:27:24 GMT

what is your distribution?

Try

ps -ef|grep send

command.

check root's mail with "mail", "pine" or another mailclient.

Re: clientmqueue in red hat

R.O. — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:10:56 GMT

Hi,

Finally I discovered that these mails are being generated by snmp traps by the ILO remote card. I am investigating these traps prior deactivate its generation.

Regards,